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Trade minister knows rural trade concerns

His constituency in Quebec is also home to many dairy farmers

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Trade Minister François Philippe Champagne likes to talk about how the proposed trade deal with Europe will eventually see most Canadian exports to the continent enter duty free. At the same time, his political circumstances make him well aware of rural concerns about the deal’s impacts, he told the Senate foreign affairs committee. In addition
Sonny Perdue, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.
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Sonny’s big adventure

The putative U.S. agriculture secretary has a tall order ahead of him to boost trade

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Those Wisconsin dairy cows at the centre of another trade kettle now boiling between the United States and Canada, a friend suggests, aren’t really black and white Holsteins. They’re tiny, yellow canaries, he opines, and their tweets — not President Donald J. Trump’s — are a warning that America’s reign as the world’s ag export
U.S. President Donald Trump is being asked to include potatoes in upcoming NAFTA negotiations.
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Spuds may be NAFTA target

A key U.S. potato industry organization is asking the Trump administration to address its concerns in upcoming negotiations

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The U.S. National Potato Council is calling for action in any upcoming NAFTA renegotiations. In a letter to President Donald Trump, John Keeling, NPC’s CEO, said the group “… is strongly supportive of improving the conditions for trade that we confront with Canada and Mexico.” He also noted that the two countries represent important markets
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Trump team wants more NAFTA access for U.S. goods, services

No specific targets have yet been set, such as U.S. access to Canada’s dairy sector

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Trump administration trade officials want a revamped North American Free Trade Agreement to improve access for U.S. farm products, manufactured goods and services in Canada and Mexico, said lawmakers who met with them on Tuesday. Members of the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee met with Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and acting U.S. Trade
The U.S.-Mexico border between San Diego to the left and Tijuana to the right contrasts the differences in development between the two nations.
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Trump trade adviser strikes conciliatory tone on Mexico

Canada has worried about being sideswiped during NAFTA uproar

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One of U.S. President Don­ald Trump’s most protectionist trade advisers has struck a more conciliatory tone with Mexico, saying he wanted the two countries and Canada to form a regional manufacturing “powerhouse” with stricter rules of origin. White House National Eco­nomic Council director Peter Navarro’s comments Mar. 15 on Bloomberg News helped boost Mexico’s peso
Mexico appears poised to use a similar strategy in U.S. trade disputes as the one that paved the way for its trucking industry gaining access to the U.S.
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U.S. farm heartland lobbies to steer Trump away from Mexico trade war

The country is a big agriculture trade partner and the two products likely to be hardest hit are pork and cheese

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Farmers in the U.S. agricultural heartland that helped elect Donald Trump are now pushing his administration to avoid a trade dispute with Mexico. They fear retaliatory tariffs that could hit over $3 billion (all figures U.S. funds) in U.S. exports. The value of exports at risk is based on a Reuters analysis of a tariff
Non-tariff trade barriers remain major obstacle
Crops, Livestock

Non-tariff trade barriers remain major obstacle

They’ve become a favourite tool to block trade now that tariffs are out of fashion

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While tariffs on agri-food products are declining around the world, non-tariff trade barriers are sprouting up like weeds, the Commons agriculture has been told. “While we are seeing progress in lowering tariffs, non-tariff trade barriers are frequently waiting, or newly created ones are set in place to be the next wave of protectionism that we
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China should be focus of food trade efforts

The Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance says China is our biggest and best bet for future growth

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Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay departed on a trade mission to India and Vietnam in late February, just as farm export groups called for more attention on China. The Canadian Agri-Food Trade Alliance says in a new report that China purchased $5.6 billion worth of Canadian farm and food exports in 2016 and has become the
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U.S. push for NAFTA renegotiation coming but could be a slow starter

The only agriculture issues that are coming up so far are dairy quotas and country-of-origin labelling for meat

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Reports emanating from Washington suggest the White House will announce a proposal for renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement in mid-March. Congressional leaders say they will consider it but want to see the reasoning behind the initiative before giving their support. There’s a lot of doubt about whether the administration is actually ready to
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Government grilled on Agriculture Day

Most of the responses included little new information offered up in the heat of the debate

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Opposition senators and MPs celebrated Canada’s Agriculture Day Feb. 16 by grilling the government on farm policy but reaped little for their efforts. However, Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay rebounded Conservative Farm Critic David Anderson’s call for a return to farmers of a $100-million surplus the Canadian Grain Commission racked up in recent years. It was

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