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Beef Trade With Colombia Restored

By Ron Friesen May 28, 2009

Colombia will reopen its doors to Canadian beef and livestock, raising hopes for a breakthrough in Canada’s beef trade with Latin America. Colombia will accept 5,250 tonnes of Canadian beef annually duty free, yielding sales of nearly $6 million a year. Another expected $1 million worth of livestock and genetics sales will make the total

Cereals, News, Pulses

Canada Pursues FTAs In Peru, Colombia

By Allan Dawson May 28, 2009

Canadian wheat and pulse growers need Canada to ratify free trade deals with Peru and Colombia to stay competitive with Argentina and the United States. Wheat import tariffs have historically been as high as 17 per cent into Peru and 15 per cent into Colombia. Without a free trade deal, tariffs could cut Canadian grain

Hogs, News

U. S. Processors Defiant On COOL

By Ron Friesen May 28, 2009

“It depends on how the political winds blow in terms of how strong he’ll try to push it.” – JURGEN PREUGSCHAS, CPC U. S. food companies are refusing to follow a federal government request to increase country-of-origin labelling (COOL) measures on meat, in a possible showdown with the Obama administration. A recent Canadian delegation to

Beef cattle, Livestock, News

Canada Working Toward Beef Settlement With EU

By Alex Binkley May 28, 2009

Canada is discussing a possible settlement of its long-running beef dispute with the European Union, a spokeswoman for the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade says. The issue gained attention with the announcement in mid-May that the United States had reached a settlement with the EU, which will see more American beef enter the

Beef cattle, News

Canada’s Trade Hopes Raised

By Ron Friesen May 21, 2009

Canada expects to increase its beef exports to Europe, now that the U. S. will be able to do so. The U. S. and the EU have reached a four-year agreement in principle to increase American shipments of hormone-free beef to Europe. In exchange, the U. S. will gradually eliminate certain tariffs on EU products.

News

Canada Forges Ahead With WTO Challenge Of COOL

By Alex Binkley May 21, 2009

Trade Minister Stockwell Day and Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz made it official May 7. Canada is reviving its WTO challenge of the United States country-of-origin labelling program. In a visit to Washington in late April, Day told reporters he had informed U. S. officials of Canada’s intention. But the government still wanted to make an

News

U. S. Wants New WTO Process

By Jonathan Lynn May 21, 2009

Big emerging countries like China, India, Brazil and South Africa must do more to open their markets to secure a new global trade deal, the U. S. trade chief said May 13. U. S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, who took up his job in March, was speaking after two days of intense talks with U.

Beef cattle, Opinion

Protecting The Canadian Brand

May 14, 2009

JOHN MORRISS EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Stéphane Dion may not exactly be a barrel of laughs, but the much-abused former leader of the Liberal party may soon get the last one. That will be when the U. S. imposes a carbon tax – which in some form, is probably what it’s going to do – and Canada,

Hogs, Livestock

Hog Industry Fights Against Swine Flu Backlash

By Ron Friesen May 14, 2009

“Importers from other countries are really nervous about buying right now.” – JURGEN PREUGSCHAS, CPC Canadians are being urged to eat more pork as the hog industry mounts a publicity drive against a backlash from the H1N1 Influenza A virus that has become known as swine flu. The Canadian Pork Council and its marketing arm

Livestock

International Trade Helps Solve Food Crisis

By Jonathan Lynn May 14, 2009

International trade is part of the solution to the global food crisis and not one of its causes, the head of the World Trade Organization says. Global integration represented by trade enabled food to be transported from where it could be produced efficiently to where there was demand, said WTO Director General Pascal Lamy. Geography

Daily Network News

U.S. livestock: Chicago cattle futures climb on post-Thanksgiving trade

U.S. grains: Corn futures set June high on US export demand

California researchers create nitrogen-fixing wheat

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