Canada’s supply management system will go on, despite some cursory efforts by Americans to get rid of it during the recent North American trade talks. This should be the last trade agreement that Canadian supply managed sectors need to worry about. After Europe, Asia and Oceania and the United States, there aren’t many other dairy […] Read more
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Editorial: A trade deal that needed to be done
Opinion: Agriculture needs to fight new age of trade protectionism
The Canadian government should apply a ‘trade lens’ to its policies across departments
The world has entered a new age of nationalism, resulting in growing trade protectionism and increasing barriers for Canadian farmers and exporters who depend on international markets. The idea that trade is about winning or losing is dangerous and misleading. This idea ignores the world’s growth over the last 75 years and the disastrous outcomes […] Read more
Trudeau takes Quebec dairy gamble to preserve big trade deal
Ottawa/Montreal | Reuters — With his political future at stake, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will mount a charm offensive to placate dairy farmers who say he sold them out in order to win approval of a continental trade deal. Compounding Trudeau’s challenges in the influential province of Quebec, where many dairy farmers are based, […] Read more
The USMCA details: What we know
Poultry market access will continue to grow over years. Dairy exports capped
Here’s what we know so far on details for the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement trade deal. Most of these details are from the Office of the United States Trade Representative, which has posted information about the new deal. Dairy The new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement allows 3.6 per cent more American access to the Canadian dairy […] Read more
Grains, hog farmers praise trade deal
Farmers outside of supply managed commodities are praising the new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement to modernize NAFTA. Stability of markets is important for trading commodities and a completed North American trade deal will help remove concerns about potential change in the market. “This agreement ensures that the existing strong trade relationship between Canada, the U.S. and […] Read more
DFC hits back at politicians over dairy losses in trade deal
The Dairy Farmers of Canada is expressing angry discontent at Prime Minister Justin Trudeau
Dairy Farmers of Canada (DFC) is expressing its strong disappointment in the concessions given to the U.S. in the new USMCA trade agreement. “The announced concessions on dairy in the new USMCA deal demonstrates once again that the Canadian government is willing to sacrifice our domestic dairy production when it comes time to make a […] Read more
Trade deal kills Class 7, allows more U.S. milk access
Dairy pays heavy price for Canada to secure North American trade deal
A new North American trade deal agreement has been reached it and will have significant implications for Canadian dairy farmers. The deal, agreed upon last night, is now called the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The U.S. will be given 3.59 per cent access to the Canadian dairy market. That’s a significant loss for Canadian dairy, […] Read more
Opinion: Trade issues in spotlight as parliamentary session begins
Capital Letters: There's no shortage of uncertainty when it comes to global trade
As members of Parliament returned to Ottawa for the start of the fall sitting, trade is on everybody’s mind. Two of the world’s largest economies, the United States and China, are fighting an ongoing trade war and Canada finds itself caught in the middle. The U.S. is our largest trading partner. The connection between our […] Read more
Canada, U.S. push toward NAFTA deal by Friday
Washington | Reuters — Top NAFTA negotiators from Canada and the U.S. increased the pace of their negotiations Thursday to resolve final differences to meet a Friday deadline, with their Mexican counterpart on standby to rejoin the talks soon. Despite some contentious issues still on the table, the increasingly positive tone contrasted with U.S. President […] Read more
Losing one quota, managing another
Dutch dairy farmers are now free to produce all they milk they want — if they buy quota to produce more phosphorus
Dutch dairy farmers were excited when the European Union removed milk quotas in 2015. For years the Netherlands had been hitting its quota, so with quotas removed, it was thought dairy farmers would finally be able to expand, and they did. However, the growth happened too fast, and that has led to new problems. Why […] Read more
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