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Struggling U.S. farm sector faces new threat as TPP dies

By GFM Network News, Mark Weinraub January 24, 2017

Chicago | Reuters — U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to back out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, a US$62 billion market for U.S. farmers, provides a fresh threat to a slumping agricultural economy that has grown increasingly dependent on exports. Agricultural groups expressed disappointment over the move and urged the new administration to

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Canada says TPP trade deal dead without U.S.

By David Ljunggren, GFM Network News January 24, 2017

Calgary | Reuters — The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal cannot proceed without the United States, Canada said on Tuesday, even as Australia and New Zealand pledged to salvage it. U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from the 12-nation TPP on Monday, following through on an election promise days after his inauguration. “This agreement was so

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Australia, New Zealand pledge to salvage TPP

By GFM Network News, Reuters January 23, 2017

Reuters — Australia hopes to salvage the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) by encouraging China and other Asian nations into the agreement in the wake of U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to pull his country out of the pact, its trade minister said on Tuesday. New Zealand’s trade minister said ministers from the remaining TPP countries would

If Donald Trump’s stance on NAFTA becomes his template for other trade negotiations, disaster awaits American farmers and ranchers.

Opinion

It isn’t broken; don’t fix it

By Alan Guebert December 12, 2016

Truth, civility, and honesty took a beating in the 2016 U.S. election, but global trade, the campaign’s daily whipping boy, actually grew in the July-September quarter. Moreover, reports the CPB Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis, an international group that tracks trade, the surge means global trade “may rise over the year as a whole.”

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Don’t derail trade deals

By Zippy Duvall December 6, 2016

It was a good harvest this fall, with many American farmers seeing record yields. But the blessing of a good harvest can also be a burden if you don’t have enough customers for your crops. With the lowest commodity prices on corn and soybeans in more than a decade, farmers need access to more markets

Opinion

Harvesting prosperity from seven years of negotiation

By Brian Innes November 30, 2016

Threats to rip up NAFTA and trash the TPP send a chill down the spines of Canadians whose livelihoods depend on trade. While the Trump administration’s action plan is not yet clear, it is crystal clear that Canada’s past and future depend on trade. Throughout history with a small population and huge resources, Canada has

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, in a video released Monday, pledges to serve notice in January of the United States’ withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. (YouTube)

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Trump pledges U.S. withdrawal from TPP on ‘day one’

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff November 21, 2016

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to start the United States’ exit from the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal on “day one” of his administration in January. In a video released Monday, Trump said his transition team had been directed to put together “a list of executive actions we can take on day one”

Trade liberalization isn’t popular now but former USDA chief economist and U.S. agricultural trade negotiator Joe Glauber hopes it will regain support because, in his view, it’s good for farmers.

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Support for free trade ain’t what it used to be

What was ‘accepted wisdom’ is under populist attack, but a veteran American trade advocate  expects a revival in trade liberalization because of the benefits

By Allan Dawson November 21, 2016

After more than two decades trade liberalization seems out of style, but like fat lapels or skinny ties, it’s likely to be vogue again. That’s because of the benefits, especially for farmers, says Joe Glauber, the United States Department of Agriculture’s former chief economist and senior research fellow at the International Food Policy Research Institute

President-elect Donald Trump won a surprise victory Nov. 8, partly on promises to tear up trade deals like NAFTA.

News

Trump’s triumph turns to ag trade trepidation

The U.S. president-elect has threatened to tear up the $1-trillion-a-year  North American Free Trade Agreement and says he won’t ratify the  Trans-Pacific Partnership

By Allan Dawson November 17, 2016

Canada’s trade-dependent economy, including agriculture, could be collateral damage in Donald Trump’s battle to make America great again. The president-elect says he’ll pull out of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) if it can’t be renegotiated to give the U.S. a better deal. He also says he won’t ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), which

European cheese is just one dairy product that’s set to enter Canada in greater volumes if looming trade deals are ratified.

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Trade deals loom for dairy farmers

But compensation packages remain elusive

By Jennifer Paige October 20, 2016

International trade agreements continue to weigh on the minds of the province’s dairy producers. The Dairy Farmers of Manitoba held the first of its fall meetings on October 11 in Elkhorn, where conversations frequently turned to the looming Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the European Union. “There was nothing

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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