(NAFB) – U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai Tuesday announced the U.S. has requested and established a dispute settlement panel under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement regarding dairy trade.
The request seeks to review measures adopted by Canada that “undermine the ability of American dairy exporters to sell a wide range of products to Canadian consumers.” The U.S. is challenging Canada’s allocation of dairy tariff-rate quotas, specifically the set-aside of a percentage of each dairy TRQ exclusively for Canadian processors.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack responded, “This is an important step for American agriculture and one that brings the U.S. dairy sector closer to realizing the full benefits of the USMCA.” Vilsack adds the action “puts our other agricultural trading partners on notice that they must play by the rules.”
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May 26, 2021 | 12:09 PM
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai Tuesday (May 25, 2021) announced the U.S. has requested and established a dispute settlement panel under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement regarding dairy trade.
The request seeks to review measures adopted by Canada that “undermine the ability of American dairy exporters to sell a wide range of products to Canadian consumers.” The U.S. is challenging Canada’s allocation of dairy tariff-rate quotas, specifically the set-aside of a percentage of each dairy TRQ exclusively for Canadian processors.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack responded, “This is an important step for American agriculture and one that brings the U.S. dairy sector closer to realizing the full benefits of the USMCA.” Vilsack adds the action “puts our other agricultural trading partners on notice that they must play by the rules.”
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Dairy cows feed in a barn on a farm in Eastern Ontario on Wednesday, April 19, 2017. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sean Kilpatrick May 25, 2021 - 1:37 PM
WASHINGTON - The United States is ramping up its dispute with Canada over the sale of American dairy products north of the border â the first significant new trade squabble between the two countries of the post-NAFTA era.
U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai formally requested a dispute settlement panel Tuesday to examine allegations from American producers that Canada is denying them fair access to the Canadian market.
The request marks a significant escalation of American complaints about the way Canada is allocating access to its supply-managed dairy market under NAFTA s successor, the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
Canada’s dairy tariff-rate quota system challenged under trade enforcement mechanisms in USMCA.
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U.S. Trade Representative Ambassador Katherine Tai announced May 25 that the United States has requested and established a dispute settlement panel under the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement to review measures adopted by the Government of Canada that USTR says “undermine the ability of American dairy exporters to sell a wide range of products to Canadian consumers.”
Dairy industry groups, including the U.S. Dairy Export Council, National Milk Producers Federation and International Dairy Foods Association, have been calling for full enforcement of Canada’s trade obligations given Canada’s ongoing refusal to change how it handles dairy market access under USMCA. Initiating an official dispute settlement will, under USMCA rules, establish a panel to determine whether Canada has been violating its trade obligations. If th