In a move to support domestic prices after a bumper crop, India's government has announced a 50 percent import duty on peas, while also raising its tariff on wheat from 10 to 20 percent. The country's Central Board of Excise and Customs issued an order on Wednesday seeking to "increase rate of basic customs duty... Read More
Category: Trade
Just leave it alone. Don't ask for too much and jeopardize a deal that could potentially be finalized this weekend. That's what Canadian agriculture groups representing farmers who depend on trade are telling the Ottawa as leaders from the remaining 11 Trans-Pacific Partnership countries head to Vietnam. The Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance sent a strongly-worded... Read More
Canadians' support for the Trans-Pacific Partnership has nearly doubled since early 2016, according to new survey results from the Angus Reid Institute. 59 percent of Canadians now say they support the TPP, up from 32 percent in Angus Reid's last survey, conducted in early 2016. (The survey included a representative randomized sample of 1504 Canadian... Read More
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) has made a change to its labeling rules for packers that moves the Canadian pork industry a step closer to benefitting from the Canada-European Union trade agreement. A change to the CFIA Manual of Procedures will now allow packers to apply EU health mark labels after meat has been... Read More
Since the U.S. opened the NAFTA talks, and even before that, U.S. Dairy Export Council President Tom Vilsack has been pushing hard for more dairy access in the Canadian market. He has stressed the need for increased competition in North America, saying the consumer will ultimately win. I've heard him speak several times and the... Read More
RealAg's Shaun Haney had the chance to be the guest host on AgriTalk, the leading U.S. agriculture radio program, filling in for Mike Adams on Thursday. With all the issues surrounding NAFTA, it was an opportunity for the American audience to hear the issues and opinions through a Canadian lens. Find other episodes of Agritalk... Read More
As round four of the NAFTA talks comes to a close, you have to wonder why it took the U.S. this long to finally come around to the stiff demands laid out in round four. From auto to dairy, the U.S. provided a list of demands that Canada and Mexico have described as unacceptable, and,... Read More
The tone surrounding NAFTA negotiations certainly turned during the fourth round of talks, which wrapped up Tuesday in Arlington, Virginia. Pessimistic or gloomy would be appropriate descriptors, definitely out of tune, even if you're optimistic. After three rounds with little progress, U.S. negotiators came out swinging, tabling multiple 'non-starters' in the eyes of Canada and... Read More
American requests for changes to Canada's supply management system for dairy and poultry are a "non-starter," said Canada's agriculture minister on Monday. U.S. negotiators introduced an initial dairy proposal on Friday, which calls for increased transparency and changes to Canada's milk class system, including the elimination of the new class 7 that has taken away... Read More
The U.S. introduced its much-anticipated proposal regarding dairy during NAFTA negotiations on Friday, although it did not contain an explicit request for a percentage increase in market access into Canada. The American proposal was focused on changing Canada's milk class system and increasing transparency in supply management. The proposal would reverse recent changes to Canada's... Read More