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Champagne vineyards at Montagne de Reims, France. (Southtownboy/iStock/Getty Images)

U.S. vows 100 per cent tariffs on France’s champagne, cheese over digital tax

By David Lawder, GFM Network News December 3, 2019

Washington | Reuters — The U.S. government on Monday said it may slap punitive duties of up to 100 per cent on US$2.4 billion in imports from France of champagne, handbags, cheese and other products, after concluding that France’s new digital services tax would harm U.S. tech companies. The U.S. Trade Representative’s office said its

French President Emmanuel Macron shakes hands with China’s President Xi Jinping after a joint news conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China Nov. 6, 2019. Photo: Reuters/Jason Lee/POOL

China, France sign deals worth $15 bln during visit

By Dominique Patton, GFM Network News November 6, 2019

Beijing | Reuters – China and France signed contracts totalling $15 billion during a visit by President Emmanuel Macron, a Chinese government official told a news briefing on Wednesday. Deals were struck in the fields of aeronautics, energy and agriculture, including approval for 20 French companies to export poultry, beef and pork to China. They also agreed to expand

The USDA building in Washington, D.C. (Art Wager/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops

Global wheat production to decrease, USDA says

By GFM Network News, Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm September 13, 2019

MarketsFarm — In the latest supply and demand report from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the global wheat forecast was revised downward due to difficult weather conditions. USDA has now projected 765.53 million tonnes of wheat to be produced in 2019-20, according to the department’s world agriculture supply and demand estimates (WASDE), released Thursday. That’s

File photo of a canola field in northern France’s Normandy region. (Brasil2/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops, Markets

Shut out of China, Canada finds canola buyers in drought-damaged Europe

By GFM Network News, Gus Trompiz, Rod Nickel August 22, 2019

Winnipeg/Paris | Reuters — Crop-scorching drought in Europe is providing Canadian canola farmers a timely new opportunity to move supplies that have piled up since China stopped buying this year. Rising European sales are taking some of the sting out of losing the Chinese market for Canadian farmers, although ICE canola futures prices are down

Nicolas Hulot listens to the speech of French President Emmanuel Macron on July 9, 2018.
Photo: Reuters/Charles Platiau

Other

France’s Hulot calls on parliament to vote against EU-Canada trade deal

By GFM Network News July 22, 2019

Paris | Reuters – Popular former environment minister Nicolas Hulot on Monday urged the French parliament to vote against the EU-Canada trade deal in a last-minute bid to block the agreement. The EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) provisionally took effect from September 2017, but still needs to be approved by all 28 EU

Markets

EU says ready to launch U.S. trade talks, but without agriculture

By GFM Network News, Philip Blenkinsop April 15, 2019

Brussels | Reuters — The European Union is ready to start talks on a trade agreement with the United States and aims to conclude a deal before year-end, European Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said on Monday. The EU approved two areas for negotiation, opposed by France with an abstention from Belgium. But agriculture was not

A file photo of rapeseed fields near Vouziers in France’s Ardennes department. (Photopixal/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops

French rapeseed farmers destroy 18,000 hectares over GMO risk

By GFM Network News, Reuters April 5, 2019

Paris | Reuters — French farmers destroyed a total of 18,000 hectares of rapeseed, more than double the area initially expected, following the discovery of a non-authorized genetically modified organism (GMO) in seeds, German group Bayer said on Friday. Bayer had announced in February that farmers in France and Germany were turning over thousands of

File photo of a sprayer at work on a field in France. (Debove Sophie/iStock/Getty Images)

Crops

France’s glyphosate exit seen 80 per cent complete by 2021

By GFM Network News, Reuters January 25, 2019

Paris | Reuters — France expects to have cut the use of glyphosate herbicide by 80 per cent by early 2021, its agriculture minister said on Friday, less than previously anticipated due to the number of farmers who will qualify for an exemption. In November 2017, President Emmanuel Macron pledged to ban glyphosate in France

Protesters wearing yellow vests, the symbol of a French drivers’ protest against higher diesel prices, occupy a roundabout in Cissac-Medoc, France on Wednesday. The slogan in pink reads “Urgent, purchase power, dignity for all.” (Photo: Reuters/Regis Duvignau)

Markets

France delays food price rise for farmers after protests

By GFM Network News, Sybille De La Hamaide December 5, 2018

Paris | Reuters — France, reeling from violent protests over the cost of living, said Wednesday it will delay a planned rise in minimum food prices, incurring the wrath of the main farmers group which urged street action next week. A powerful constituency in French politics, farmers have long complained of being hit by a

The Belgian border near Lille in northern France. (Beeldbewerking/iStock/Getty Images)

Hogs, Livestock

Fearful of swine fever, France to put up fence on Belgian border

By GFM Network News, Reuters October 12, 2018

Strasbourg, France | Reuters — France will put up fencing along its border with Belgium to prevent wild boars spreading African swine fever, a virulent livestock disease that could disrupt Europe’s pig industry. France has been on alert for African swine fever since Belgium detected the virus last month among wild boars a few kilometres

Daily Network News

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Tag Archives France

U.S. vows 100 per cent tariffs on France’s champagne, cheese over digital tax

China, France sign deals worth $15 bln during visit

Global wheat production to decrease, USDA says

Shut out of China, Canada finds canola buyers in drought-damaged Europe

France’s Hulot calls on parliament to vote against EU-Canada trade deal

EU says ready to launch U.S. trade talks, but without agriculture

French rapeseed farmers destroy 18,000 hectares over GMO risk

France’s glyphosate exit seen 80 per cent complete by 2021

France delays food price rise for farmers after protests

Fearful of swine fever, France to put up fence on Belgian border

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