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WTO dials back Canada’s COOL retaliation

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News December 7, 2015

Canada will be able to take only about a third of the revenge it asked the World Trade Organization to authorize over the United States’ country-of-origin labelling (COOL) law. An arbitration panel of the WTO’s Dispute Settlement Body (DSB) ruled Monday that Canada and Mexico may now ask the DSB to authorize annual retaliatory tariffs,

Livestock, Markets

CME to revamp cattle delivery rules before COOL vote

By GFM Network News, Reuters December 4, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — CME Group plans changes to its rules for live cattle futures, requiring that all cattle delivered against the contract must be born and raised solely in the U.S., the exchange said in a statement Friday. The new requirement, effective Dec. 18, covers all currently listed trading months through April 2017. CME

Crops, Livestock, News

Canada’s new ag minister pledges to listen to farmers

Lawrence MacAulay leans in favour of the TPP deal and  hopes the Americans blink on COOL

By Allan Dawson November 23, 2015

After just six days as Canada’s new agriculture minister, Lawrence MacAulay hasn’t taken a position on a number of agricultural issues, but he knows how he will: “I intend to listen to the man who does the work — the farmer.” The 69-year-old former Prince Edward Island dairy and seed potato farmer and former solicitor

Livestock, Markets

MacAulay favours TPP deal, poised for trade fight with U.S.

By GFM Network News, Rod Nickel November 10, 2015

Winnipeg | Reuters –– Canada’s new agriculture minister said Tuesday he likely will support the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiated by the previous government, and is inclined to retaliate against the U.S. over a long-standing meat-labeling dispute. The Liberal government, elected last month, has not taken a firm position yet on whether it will support TPP, which

Canada’s new Agriculture and Agri-Foods Minister Lawrence MacAulay (l) is sworn-in during a ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa November 4, 2015. Photo: REUTERS/Chris Wattie

Lawrence MacAulay sworn in as Canada’s new agriculture minister

By GFM Network News, Shannon VanRaes November 5, 2015

Ottawa/Manitoba Co-operator – Only hours after being sworn in by Governor General David Johnston and mere minutes after leaving his first cabinet meeting, Canada’s newly minted Minister of Agriculture paused to speak with reporters gathered on Parliament Hill Nov. 3. “I’m certainly pleased,” said Lawrence MacAulay. “Being a dairy farmer and a seed potato farmer

Hogs, Opinion

Federal candidates need to understand the challenges facing today’s hog industry

Market access, labour and financing issues threaten to undermine its future

By Rick Bergmann October 6, 2015

Over 7,000 pig farms in Canada produce 25.52 million animals a year and generate over $13 billion in economic activity, making the country’s swine industry the fourth-largest source of farm cash receipts of any agricultural commodity. In 2014, over 1.14 million tonnes of pork and pork products valued at over $3.7 billion were exported to

Livestock, Markets

COOL saga winding down, but not over yet

By GFM Network News, Phil Franz-Warkentin September 24, 2015

CNS Canada –– The seven-year saga of U.S. country of origin labelling (COOL) rules and their adverse impact on Canada’s livestock sector may be nearing its final chapter, but the conclusion still needs to be written. After numerous complaints and appeals with the World Trade Organization, the COOL regulations in place since 2008 have been

Livestock, News

COOL decision down to the fine points

An arbitration panel heard widely different interpretations of how much damage was done

By Alex Binkley September 24, 2015

Canada has made its final pitch to a World Trade Organization panel on the billions of dollars of damage beef and pork producers say they have suffered due to the U.S. country-of-origin labelling (COOL) program. Now it awaits a decision on what level of retaliatory tariffs it can impose on imports of American food and

Beef cattle, Hogs, Livestock, Markets

NAFTA countries debate COOL harm at WTO

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff September 17, 2015

Canada and Mexico have made their case before a World Trade Organization arbitration panel on how much tariff revenge they’re allowed to impose on U.S. goods over country-of-origin labelling (COOL). The WTO “has ruled four times that the U.S.’s COOL rules are discriminatory,” Canadian Pork Council chairman Rick Bergmann said in a council release Wednesday

Times have changed in the food business since COOL was first made into law.

Opinion

Editorial: COOL’s $2.9-billion divide

By Laura Rance-Unger August 17, 2015

It’s no secret that Canadian livestock groups and the federal government would like nothing better than to see the U.S. surrender and repeal its country-of-origin labelling (COOL) scheme. It appears, however, that those efforts are bogged down once again. Firstly, we’re in the midst of a federal election campaign. Even if the Harper government gets

Daily Network News

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U.S. grains: Soybeans rise on China demand hopes; corn and wheat rebound

U.S. livestock: Hogs rebound, cattle hit upward limits

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WTO dials back Canada’s COOL retaliation

CME to revamp cattle delivery rules before COOL vote

Canada’s new ag minister pledges to listen to farmers

MacAulay favours TPP deal, poised for trade fight with U.S.

Lawrence MacAulay sworn in as Canada’s new agriculture minister

Federal candidates need to understand the challenges facing today’s hog industry

COOL saga winding down, but not over yet

COOL decision down to the fine points

NAFTA countries debate COOL harm at WTO

Editorial: COOL’s $2.9-billion divide

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