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Even as North America’s new trade deal clears a major hurdle, the WTO faces an existential crisis.

Farmers caught in WTO crossfire

The U.S. is letting the global trade bloc wither on the vine, while it fights economic wars

By Allan Dawson December 19, 2019

As the World Trade Organization faces a crisis that renders it impotent and potentially on the verge of dissolving, Manitoba farmers are facing more trade uncertainty than ever. “We’re really in unchartered territory here,” University of Manitoba agricultural economist Ryan Cardwell said in an interview Dec. 12, while attending a trade meeting in Washington, D.C.

As the White House openly panders to its rural voters, China, wall or no wall, continues to play the long game.

Comment, Opinion, Other

Comment: U.S. trade policy hits the Great Wall

China plays the long game; United States keeps getting played

By Alan Guebert December 11, 2019

Several years ago, when Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Tom Friedman was asked to choose which rising Asian nation, China or India, he’d bet the farm on, Friedman didn’t hesitate to pick India. The reason, he explained, was that while both nations were on an expressway to the future, India, the world’s largest democracy, had an open

U.S. President Donald Trump and China’s President Xi Jinping won’t be signing any deals at the cancelled APEC Summit in Chile.

Markets, News, Other

More curveballs for U.S./China trade pact

Chile will no longer be the venue for signing the partial trade agreement  

By Glen Hallick - MarketsFarm November 7, 2019

With a tremendous amount of anger and frustration pouring onto the streets of Santiago, Chile, the country’s president cancelled the upcoming Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation Summit. The gathering of government leaders from around the Pacific Rim was to take place in the Chilean capital on Nov. 16 and 17. However, floods of demonstrators protesting against harsh economic conditions

Canada exported just 112,000 tonnes of canola to China in May based on sales made before the current dispute, down 79 per cent compared to May 2018.

News, Oilseeds

Escalation of canola dispute with China won’t work

Market analyst Mike Jubinville doesn’t see a resolution any time soon

By Allan Dawson August 1, 2019

Retaliating against China over its import restrictions on Canadian canola will only make the dispute harder to resolve, according to MarketsFarm analyst Mike Jubinville. Some commentators and farmers are demanding Canada retaliate, for example, by subjecting Chinese imports to intense inspections. “Taking an aggressive position with China is absolutely pointless,” he said in an interview

Editorial, Farmit Manitoba, Opinion

(Former) Editor’s Take: Record exports are not a problem

By John Morriss July 25, 2019

Canadian farm organizations have been making the case for better business risk management programs, and with margins getting tighter, they may be justified. But farm leaders should ask for the right reasons, and they shouldn’t include market access problems or being caught in a trade war, especially when export demand has never been better. Hardly

Politics and a renewed vigour of nationalism are making it increasingly difficult for international trade.

News, Other

Agricultural trade looms as election issue

By Allan Dawson July 3, 2019

Farmers, most of whom rely on exports know it, and so does Ottawa as both face rising protectionism

Continuing trade turmoil is top of mind for Canadian farmers and the federal government heading into the October federal election. The Western Canadian Wheat Growers Association (WCWGA) is demanding the government bulldoze barriers to Canadian agricultural exports. The Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance (CAFTA) has issued recommendations to protect and enhance Canadian agriculture and food exports.

News

Comment: U.S. farmers suffering from trade wars

As usual, farmers are getting it coming and going from this economic upset

By Daryll E. Ray, Harwood D. Schaffer June 17, 2019

Despite the hope that the U.S. and China would come to an agreement on trade that would end China’s retaliatory tariffs on agricultural imports from the U.S., nothing is on tap as we write this column. In what appears to be an attempt by the administration to pressure the Chinese into a deal by announcing

Steel tariffs made farm equipment manufacturing margins smaller last year.

Equipment, News, Other

Tariffs made for ‘lean year’ for agriculture manufacturers

The lifting of the U.S.-Canada steel tariffs should make trade easier, but it might be too early to tell if it will reduce the cost of farm machinery

By Geralyn Wichers, John Greig June 12, 2019

Despite dropped steel tariffs, one Manitoba manufacturer of agricultural equipment says it’s too early to be optimistic. “I think it’s just going to be a regular day of business,” said Darren Blazeiko, general manager of Cancade CBI Ltd. in Brandon. Why it matters: The tariffs have made imports of steel and equipment and exports of

Editorial, Opinion, Other

Editorial: Back to the future?

By Gord Gilmour April 25, 2019

Trying to predict the future with any accuracy is a fool’s errand, but that doesn’t stop plenty from trying. One of the biggest fallacies people fall into is the ‘recency effect,’ when the events of the near past are assumed to be more important than earlier events. Informally, it’s become shorthand for the assumption that

News

Shifting sands on international trade

Trade times have changed — and that puts Canada in a tough spot

By Allan Dawson April 25, 2019

So what’s caused this move to protectionism after decades of freer trade? Call it the Trump effect. The United States, once the world’s leader in multilateral trade promotion, has derailed trade as it tries to win better deals for itself. “(I)n all honesty it’s affecting a lot of countries around the world because a lot

Daily Network News

Canadian alpacas impress American judge at Agribition

U.S. grains: Chicago grains firm as traders gauge China purchases

U.S. livestock: Futures rally ahead of U.S. Thanksgiving

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