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Editorial: Sweating the details

By Gord Gilmour October 2, 2017

As the Canada-Europe Trade Agreement was negotiated over the last few years, it’s been touted as a game-changing deal that opens up a potentially massive market. That may well be, but it would appear for most agricultural commodities, that’s going to be an ‘easier-said-than-done’ scenario, at least for the foreseeable future. Ottawa has made much

Demonstrators pull a wooden model of the Trojan Horse during a protest against the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) in front of the Parliament in Vienna, Austria on the eve of the deal coming into provisional effect.

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CETA takes effect as ag frets details

Significant barriers remain to any real progress in accessing  the European market for food products

By Alex Binkley September 28, 2017

With a flurry of press releases and a ceremony at the Port of Montreal, a new chapter in Canada’s economic history has begun to unfold as Canada’s trade deal with Europe came into effect. The Canada-Europe Trade Agreement (CETA) took provisional effect Sept. 21, even as the third round of the NAFTA renegotiations kicked off

Crops

EU starts in-depth probe of Bayer-Monsanto deal

By GFM Network News, Ludwig Burger, Robert-jan Bartunek August 22, 2017

Brussels/Frankfurt | Reuters — The European Commission has started an in-depth investigation of Bayer’s planned US$66 billion takeover of U.S. seeds group Monsanto, saying it was worried about competition in various pesticide and seeds markets. The deal would create the world’s largest integrated pesticides and seeds company, the Commission said, adding this limited the number

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Ottawa announced details of CETA assistance

Transition programs will assist farmers adapt to an expected influx of European cheese

By Alex Binkley August 11, 2017

With the European free trade deal CETA set to launch next month, Ottawa is smoothing out a few wrinkles. The federal government has backed down a bit in a dispute with the European Union over the allocation of new tariff-free cheese imports. It also said it would start accepting applications Aug. 22 from dairy farmers

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock

EU summit sought over major egg contamination scare

By GFM Network News, Robert-jan Bartunek August 11, 2017

Brussels | Reuters –– The European Commissioner in charge of food safety has called for a meeting of ministers and national regulatory agencies to discuss a widespread European contamination scare, which has seen shops remove millions of eggs from sale. Tensions have risen between agricultural ministers in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany after traces of

Crops

French farmers fume as government rejigs EU subsidies

By GFM Network News, Sybille De La Hamaide July 27, 2017

Paris / Reuters – French farm unions cried foul over a government decision on Thursday to use part of European Union direct payments linked to output to finance rural development projects such as fast growing organic farming. The decision comes just days after France launched wide debate on the future of the food sector, aiming to

Dairy cattle, Livestock

EU, Canada agree start of free trade agreement

By GFM Network News, Reuters July 8, 2017

Brussels | Reuters — The European Union and Canada said on Saturday they had agreed to start a free trade agreement between the two sides on Sept. 21, paving the way for over 90 per cent of the treaty to come into effect. The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) has been championed by both

Japan’s Imperial Palace and Nijubashi Bridge, in Tokyo. (CIA.gov)

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EU, Japan officials seal trade agreement

By GFM Network News July 5, 2017

Brussels | Reuters — Japan and the European Union should agree on Thursday to a free trade pact that could be completed within months, after senior officials removed final snags to a political deal intended as a signal to U.S. President Donald Trump. “We ironed out the few remaining differences,” European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom

Crops

Bayer files for Monsanto takeover approval with EU regulators

By GFM Network News, Reuters June 30, 2017

Frankfurt | Reuters — Bayer has filed a request for approval of its planned US$66 billion takeover of U.S. seeds company Monsanto with European Union regulators, as suitors line up for assets that Bayer will sell to get the approval by year-end. Bayer, which is bracing for the EU Commission to go into an in-depth

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Cheese and drugs wrangle holds up EU-Canada trade deal

By GFM Network News, Reuters June 29, 2017

Brussels | Reuters — Disputes over cheese and pharmaceuticals are holding up the start of a EU-Canada free trade agreement that both sides have championed as a landmark deal for open markets against a protectionist tide. The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) has received all the clearances required for it to enter force provisionally,

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Editorial: Sweating the details

CETA takes effect as ag frets details

EU starts in-depth probe of Bayer-Monsanto deal

Ottawa announced details of CETA assistance

EU summit sought over major egg contamination scare

French farmers fume as government rejigs EU subsidies

EU, Canada agree start of free trade agreement

EU, Japan officials seal trade agreement

Bayer files for Monsanto takeover approval with EU regulators

Cheese and drugs wrangle holds up EU-Canada trade deal

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