<h1>Trade tariff changes threaten agricultural export competitiveness and expose domestic farmers to cheaper foreign imports.</h1> An interim trade agreement reduces previously higher reciprocal US duties on Indian imports to a lower tariff level while lowering or eliminating duties on certain US agricultural imports into India, a realignment presented as likely to raise prices of Indian farm exports in the US and to increase competitiveness of US products domestically, threatening export opportunities for maize, soybean, dairy, peanut and cotton producers and exposing domestic farmers to cheaper US imports.