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Closeup of the flags of the North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA members on textile texture. NAFTA is the world's largest trade bloc and the member countries are Canada, United States and Mexico.

NAFTA renegotiation is a failure of education

Trade enhances productivity, improves real wages and grows economies, but not enough people know how or why

By Justin Bedi September 6, 2017

Renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement has got underway. Canada, Mexico and the United States have begun a complex, time-consuming and difficult process that could change everything — or almost nothing. For all countries involved, the risk and uncertainty outweigh the potential rewards, because we already had the ultimate reward: free trade. Only

News

First NAFTA renegotiating session concludes in a swirl of rumours

There was little concrete coming out of the first round of bargaining

By Alex Binkley August 31, 2017

The first round of NAFTA renegotiations has produced a guarded statement from the three countries and a swirl of rumours about what was discussed and what might emerge in the coming weeks. Held in Washington in mid-August, the meetings saw trade representatives from Canada, Mexico and the U.S. reopen the trade pact for the first

Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay speaks during an event at the University of Manitoba.

Dairy cattle, News

Dairy issue to be contentious

As the first round of NAFTA talks wraps up, government reaffirms commitment to supply management

By Shannon VanRaes August 25, 2017

Canada’s minister of agriculture says concessions in non-supply-managed commodities will not be offered up to U.S. negotiators as a way to ensure the security of Canada’s dairy industry during the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. “I’ve never heard that said except in the media,” said Minister Lawrence MacAulay, following an announcement at

News, Poultry

Poultry boards not letting their guard down as NAFTA preparations begin

The U.S. has a healthy trade surplus with Canada for eggs and poultry

By Alex Binkley August 22, 2017

Dairy may be getting all the attention in the upcoming NAFTA negotiations, but the chicken, egg and turkey boards aren’t letting their guard down as talks begin in mid-August. “The government has been clear in its support for supply management and we are confident it will continue to support and protect supply management during the negotiations

Hogs, Livestock, Markets

If NAFTA ain’t broke, don’t fix it, pork sector says

By GFM Network News, Terry Fries August 17, 2017

CNS Canada — As talks begin toward reworking the North American Free Trade Agreement, John Ross of the Canadian Pork Council repeats what many in the pork and beef industries in Canada and the U.S. have been saying all along: First, do no harm. “The worst thing that could happen to us was if we

Markets

Canada suggests it could quit NAFTA talks over dispute mechanism

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News August 14, 2017

Ottawa | Reuters –– Canada laid down a tough line ahead of talks on modernizing NAFTA on Monday, suggesting it could walk away if the U.S. pushed to remove a key dispute-settlement mechanism in the trade deal. Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, giving the most substantive outline yet of Canada’s goals, said she was “very optimistic”

Ahead of NAFTA talks, Canada says dispute mechanism essential

By GFM Network News, Reuters August 11, 2017

Ottawa | Reuters — An effective dispute settlement mechanism is essential in any trade agreement, Canada’s foreign affairs minister said on Friday, less than a week before the first round of negotiations on the North American trade pact. Canada’s desire to include a dispute settlement mechanism in a renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

Comment, Opinion

If push comes to shove, Canadians will abandon supply management

It won’t be high milk prices that kills supply management, it will be the prospect  of better trade terms with the U.S.

By Andrew Enns, Carlo Dade August 8, 2017

Canadians’ support for supply management for dairy, eggs and poultry — which has been presented as rock solid — evaporates when confronted with the tough choices that must be made in the coming renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement. This is critical information for the Canadian government and Canadians themselves to understand as

Comment/Feedback, Dairy cattle

NAFTA ‘absolutely essential’ for U.S. dairy industry

Dairy executive fears U.S. could lose Mexican market share to New Zealand and EU

By Stan Ryan July 31, 2017

Excerpts from testimony by Stan Ryan, president and CEO of Darigold and the Northwest Dairy Association, to the U.S. House Ways and Means Subcommittee on Trade, July 18. As we look at how to ensure we can continue a positive track record of export sales supporting farms and good jobs back here at home, NAFTA,

Manitoba beef producers are keeping a wary eye on NAFTA renegotiations but see plenty of opportunity alongside the potential risks.

Beef cattle, Livestock

Beef producers react to U.S. NAFTA scare

Manitoba beef producers are watching the discussion over NAFTA closely,  but both provincial and national beef industry groups say they see a silver lining

By Alexis Stockford May 24, 2017

Manitoba’s beef producers were initially alarmed by reports in late April that NAFTA was on the chopping block in the form of an executive order to withdraw from the trade agreement. Dissatisfaction with NAFTA was among Trump’s talking points during his 2016 election campaign along with the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which he signed an order to

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures slow descent

U.S. grains: Soybeans, wheat plummet from highs on limited Chinese demand

Feed Grain Weekly: Prices starting to pick up

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