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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, September 22, 2024
The U.S. is again demanding to enter into official consultations with Canada over complaints that Ottawa continues to manipulate its dairy import quotas that stymie U.S. exports, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said Wednesday. Those consultations could lead to the U.S. calling for a second dispute panel under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Monday left open the possibility of retaliatory tariffs against Canada for again making what the U.S. sees as an unacceptable proposal to alter its dairy quota system.
Representatives for the nation’s dairy producers and processors say New York City Mayor Eric Adams made the right decision by upholding a policy to allow flavored milks to be served in the city’s public schools.
The International Dairy Foods Association is joining with the Port of Los Angeles and the shipping logistics company CMA CGM to form the Dairy Exports Working Group as supply chain bottlenecks at U.S. ports continue to hamper shipments of agricultural commodities to foreign buyers.
The U.S. announced Tuesday that it has won the first official dispute under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement after a three-member USMCA panel agreed that Canada breached dairy quota pledges under the trade pact.
The U.S. dairy sector has evolved into an exporting powerhouse, but the international supply chain crisis is hitting the industry so hard that some are beginning to fear production may deteriorate.
The U.S. has found a way to avert the collapse of dairy exports to the European Union while still agreeing to European demands for new health certification requirements, according to industry officials.
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, the Canadian ministry of agriculture, is defending its government-run dairy price system and its compliance with the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement as criticism rises from the U.S. dairy industry that Canada is doing an end-run around the trade pact to continue bolstering exports.
Canada is again using its national dairy pricing program to bolster exports, sidestepping commitments in the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, according to fresh allegations from the U.S. dairy sector. Canada is following the letter of USMCA, but not the spirit, U.S. industry officials say.
The U.S. still only has a relatively small slice of the Chinese market but American whey, skim milk powder, cheese and other products are reaching new highs as China recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic and African swine fever.
