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U.S. grains: Corn tumbles on weather forecasts, NAFTA jitters

By GFM Network News, Julie Ingwersen April 26, 2017

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. corn futures fell more than one per cent Wednesday on forecasts for better Midwest planting weather and news that the White House is considering an executive order on withdrawing from North American Free Trade Agreement, analysts said. Soybeans also declined and wheat turned lower as corn sagged. Chicago Board of

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau speaks March 30 at a Ford plant in Windsor, Ont. (PMO photo by Adam Scotti)

Dairy cattle, Livestock

Trudeau defends dairy system against Trump protectionist charge

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News April 20, 2017

Ottawa | Reuters — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday brushed off an attack by U.S. President Donald Trump on Canada’s system of dairy protections, saying every nation defended its agricultural industries. Trudeau told Bloomberg Television that the U.S. in fact ran a dairy surplus with Canada. Trump took aim at Canada’s dairy industry

Upcoming NAFTA negotiations could spill a lot of milk for dairy producers — and that’s just the beginning according to two well-known commentators.

News

NAFTA negotiations key for farmers, say commentators

In separate speeches Andrew Coyne and Sylvain Charlebois predicted  while supply management is under the gun, there’s more at stake

By Allan Dawson April 20, 2017

A U.S.-led effort to renegotiate NAFTA could see supply management scrapped, but that’s just the beginning, say two Canadian commentators. Speaking separately at the Canadian Global Crops Symposium April 12, the National Post’s Andrew Coyne and Dalhousie University’s Sylvain Charlebois both said the North American Free Trade Agreement could provide the pretext for major changes

News

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

By Reuters April 18, 2017

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.

International news

Trump trade adviser strikes conciliatory tone on Mexico

Canada has worried about being sideswiped during NAFTA uproar

By Reuters April 3, 2017

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.

International news

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

By Alexandra Alper, Jason Lange April 3, 2017

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

Prince Edward County landowner and political commentator David Frum spoke to the GFO March Classic in London. (John Greig photo)

Crops

Take advantage of growth, guard against risk with new U.S. regime: Frum

By GFM Network News, John Greig March 23, 2017

Political commentator David Frum says there’s good, bad and potentially ugly for Canadian farmers in the United States’ new and unpredictable Trump administration. Frum, a senior editor at The Atlantic magazine and, more recently, an owner of Ontario farmland, told the Grain Farmers of Ontario March Classic in London recently that global markets have been

News

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

By Alex Binkley March 21, 2017

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

Former deputy U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) Robert Lighthizer, shown here in 2007, is President Donald Trump’s pick for the USTR job. (Dole Institute of Politics via YouTube)

Livestock

Trump’s trade nominee pledges tough enforcement

By David Lawder, GFM Network News March 14, 2017

Washington | Reuters — U.S. President Donald Trump’s choice for the top trade negotiator on Tuesday pledged an “America First” strategy to aggressively enforce U.S. laws and trade deals to stop unfair imports and push China to scrap excess factory capacity. Robert Lighthizer, the U.S. Trade Representative nominee, told senators at his confirmation hearing that

Livestock

U.S. Commerce chief sees no major NAFTA talks until later this year

By David Lawder, GFM Network News March 8, 2017

Washington | Reuters — U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said Wednesday that substantial negotiations to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement likely will not get started until the latter part of this year and could take a year to complete. Ross, speaking to Bloomberg Television, said U.S. legal notification requirements with partners Mexico and

Daily Network News

Klassen: Stronger barley prices weigh on feeder cattle values

Russia stops ammonium nitrate exports for one month amid global supply crunch

Manitoba farmland values jumped 12.2% in 2025, biggest gain in Canada

Tag Archives NAFTA

U.S. grains: Corn tumbles on weather forecasts, NAFTA jitters

Trudeau defends dairy system against Trump protectionist charge

NAFTA negotiations key for farmers, say commentators

Trump team wants more NAFTA access for U.S. goods, services

Trump trade adviser strikes conciliatory tone on Mexico

U.S. farm heartland lobbies to steer Trump away from Mexico trade war

Take advantage of growth, guard against risk with new U.S. regime: Frum

U.S. push for NAFTA renegotiation coming but could be a slow starter

Trump’s trade nominee pledges tough enforcement

U.S. Commerce chief sees no major NAFTA talks until later this year

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