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Cairns Group Looks To Break The Impasse

By Alex Binkley September 8, 2011

Representatives of more than 25 countries are in Saskatoon this week looking for a way to break the deadlock in the WTO negotiations. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz and his Australian counterpart are chairing the two-day Cairns Group meeting from Sept. 7 to 9. The group, which held its inaugural meeting in the Aussie city, has

News

COOL Outcome At WTO Still Has Long Way To Go

By Ron Friesen June 9, 2011

Don’t expect the U.S. country-of-origin labelling dispute to be over any time soon, despite a reported World Trade Organizat ion panel rul ing against it. A final outcome could still be years away, even if Canada does win the WTO case, said Kevin Grier, a livestock analyst with the George Morris Centre. “It’s going to

Beef cattle, News

Wto Backs Canada On COOL

By Ron Friesen June 2, 2011

Canada appears to have won at least a partial victory in challenging a U.S. country-of-origin rule for labelling meat sold in grocery stores. Media reports last week said a World Trade Organization dispute panel ruling favours a trade challenge by Canada and Mexico against the COOL regulation. If so, it would overturn key portions of

Cereals, Livestock

New Minister Hopeful WTO Talks Will Succeed

By Alex Binkley June 2, 2011

It may take a lower level of ambition, but the sputtering WTO trade talks may yet reach the finish line, says Ted Menzies, minister of state for finance. Menzies has witnessed the Doha round negotiations, which began in 2001, as a farm leader, opposition trade critic and now a cabinet minister. The round was envisaged

Crops

Traders Protest Ukraine Grain Monopoly

April 7, 2011

Ukraine’s plans for greater state control of grain exports could push foreign grain trading houses out of the country, a German international trade association said Mar. 22. A draft law in Ukraine proposes that traders and exporters would have to buy grain from a Ukrainian state company instead of directly from the country’s farmers, which

News, Poultry

Doha Nearly Dead, Ritz Concedes

By Alex Binkley February 10, 2011

The Doha round of international trade negotiations has passed its “best before” date and it would make more sense for countries to salvage the progress made during 10 years of negotiations, says Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. “I don’t see a groundswell of support for the latest efforts to reach a wide-ranging agreement,” Ritz said at

News

Another Push For WTO Deal In Play

By Jonathan Lynn February 10, 2011

Trading powers who have embarked on an intensified push for a new trade deal sought by political leaders must go faster if they are to have any hope of finishing the Doha round this year, the head of the WTO said Feb. 2. Trade ministers meeting in the Swiss resort of Davos last week agreed

Hogs, News

WTO Arguments In COOL Case Wrap Up

By Ron Friesen December 9, 2010

Canadian livestock groups headed home from Geneva last week expressing confidence about winning a World Trade Organization challenge to the U.S. country-of-origin food labelling rule. Both the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association and the Canadian Pork Council said they were satisfied Canada presented a WTO dispute panel with a strong case against COOL during the second and

Opinion

Trade Talks Stuck In Past

By Alan Guebert June 17, 2010

The surest way to confirm if anyone in Washington, D. C. is telling you the truth about trade is to watch their lips: if they move, they’re stretching the blanket one way or the other. Of course, not many lips have moved on trade last year or this year. Indeed, on the White House to-do

Crops

Kiwi Mischief Behind Trade Pact Claim

By Alex Binkley May 13, 2010

Trade experts wonder if there’s some Kiwi mischief behind claims that objections from dairy farmers kept Canada out of the initial round of negotiations on a pan Pacific trade agreement. A slew of stories appeared in the mainstream media in mid-April, citing no one in particular, about how Canada was excluded from 2006 talks involving

Daily Network News

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