Canada challenged by U.S. once again over tariffs on foreign dairy imports – National | 24CA News
Canada’s commerce minister says she isn’t frightened in regards to the United States reviving complaints about Canadian commerce practices round dairy imports, because the home dairy trade is abiding by North American guidelines.
An announcement from U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai on Tuesday stated Washington is requesting new dispute settlement consultations underneath the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA) commerce deal associated to Canadian dairy import tariff insurance policies.
The request expands an earlier U.S. problem of Canada’s insurance policies on quotas for figuring out tariff charges on dairy imports to give attention to Canada’s “use of a market-share approach” for figuring out allocations, in accordance with the assertion.
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The U.S. initiated dispute consultations over some Canadian dairy tariff-rate quotas in May and their “concerns have only increased” since then, the assertion stated.
Tai’s workplace stated the U.S. has recognized “additional aspects of Canada’s measures that appear to be inconsistent with Canada’s obligations under the USMCA,” utilizing the American time period for the up to date North American commerce settlement.
In response, Canadian Trade Minister Mary Ng stated earlier dispute settlement panels “have repeatedly confirmed that our supply management system is in line with our international trade obligations” and that the CUSMA phrases surrounding import tariffs are being upheld.
“We look forward to demonstrating how Canada is meeting its CUSMA obligations during the new consultations on allocations of dairy tariff-rate quotas,” the minister stated in a press release.
“As we have always done, and we will continue to do, we will stand up, work with, and defend our dairy farmers and workers.”
A tribunal dominated in December that Canada violated the phrases of CUSMA by setting apart the overwhelming majority of low-tariff imports from the U.S. solely to be used by its personal dairy processors. The ultimate report, launched in early January, stated Canada’s practices had been “inconsistent” with the commerce deal.
Yet the choice prompted each nations to declare victory, with Ng saying the ruling was “overwhelmingly in favour” of Canada’s dairy trade.
U.S. exporters argue that Canadian customers are being pressured to pay artificially excessive costs on dairy merchandise because of these practices, regardless of guarantees made to allow them to in.
Prices have solely gone up since then, rising about 20 per cent in a number of provinces as dairy farmers battle to maintain up with document inflation.
— with recordsdata from Global News’ Ashleigh Stewart and Reuters
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