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No trade? No kidding

U.S. presidential election just one sign of global shift from free trade

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You know it’s a presidential election year when the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) issues late-summer press releases where nearly half the ink touts the Obama administration’s past ag successes, even as it announces actual news. On Aug. 1 USDA issued just such a press release; 315 of its 635 words bragged about the White
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Livestock, News

COOL gone but border irritants remain for meat shipments

Canadian meat trucks are being held up at the border, which is costing time and fees

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The United States has removed its country-of-origin labelling program but has found another way to delay shipments of Canadian meat, says Jim Laws, president of the Canadian Meat Council. Agriculture Minister Lawrence MacAulay needs to intervene in the dispute, which puts Canadian exporters at a great cost disadvantage compared to U.S. companies shipping meat to
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Beef cattle, Opinion

Editorial: Winning at the WTO for real

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Canadian livestock producers won something to crow about but little else in the latest WTO ruling to support their claim that the U.S. mandatory country-of-origin labelling rules are unfair and discriminatory. The ruling was accompanied by the now-familiar volley of press releases from Canadian livestock and meat producers, and more sabre-rattling by federal politicians about
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Fears Of Resurging U.S. Protectionism Downplayed

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Republican gains in the United States’ recent midterm elections may not be as negative for Canada-U. S. trade as some fear, an American industry analyst says. Historically, Republicans are friendlier to free trade than Democrats. That will likely continue, despite the prevailing recession, said Ron Plain, a University of Missouri livestock-marketing economist. “Our expectation is
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Globalization Creates A Race To The Bottom

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Th e Wo r l d Tr a d e Organization’s (WTO) Public Forum, which happens every two years, was held in Geneva at the end of September. There were few farm groups represented at the forum, but the CFA and some of its members did attend. Walking into the plenary session can be likened
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WTO Head Says Trade Restrictions Mounting

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International commerce risks being strangled by a gradual buildup of restrictions that could undermine policies to revive the world economy, the head of the World Trade Organization (WTO) said March 26. WTO Director General Pascal Lamy said there were no signs of an imminent descent into intense tit-for-tat protectionism. “The danger today is of an
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Europeans Press U. S. For Doha Breakthrough Soon

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Countries should try for a breakthrough in world trade talks after India has held national elections in May and could be in a better position to bargain, two top European trade officials said March 25. Leaders of the Group of 20 developed and developing countries also “should give a strong signal to close the deal
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WTO Members Warn On Emerging Protectionism

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“I think everybody expects things to get worse before they get better.” – RICHARD EGLIN, WTO TRADE POLICIES REVIEW DIVISION The risk of a global lurch into protectionism is getting worse, though trade measures taken to tackle the financial crisis have not seriously fuelled it so far, World Trade Organization (WTO) members agreed Feb. 9.
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Instability feared without world trade deal

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“If we don’t buy all that stuff from China, they’re not going to buy it themselves, no matter how much the government spends.” – Economist Richard Baldwin World Trade Organization (WTO) members need to lock in existing levels of liberalization rather than pushing for further gains, or they jeopardize a Doha trade agreement and risk
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Doha not dead yet

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Resource News International Left for dead back in the summer, the World Trade Organization’s struggling Doha round is slowly being prodded back to life through a series of informal consultations in Geneva. Canadian agriculture groups welcomed the news. Ambassador Crawford Falconer, chair of the WTO’s agricultural committee, has been meeting informally with countries since early

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