USMCA

Twenty-four members of the House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee recently sent a letter to U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai about Mexico.  They want a resolution to a lingering trade dispute with Mexico over biotech corn imports.   “...

What changes would the pear industry like to see made to USMCA?  And how important are the Canadian and Mexican markets to local pear growers?  We asked Jeff Correa that and much more in today's Focus On Fruit.     If you have a story idea for the PNW Ag Network, call (509) 547-1618, or e-mail glenn.vaagen@townsquareme...

Officials from the United States, Mexico and Canada met last week as part of the USMCA Environment Committee.  The committee was established as part of the USMCA to oversee the Environment Chapter's implementation and provide a forum to discuss and review chapter implementation.  At the ...

The Washington state Dairy Federation is one many organizations in the industry rejecting Canada’s handling of tariff rate quotas under USMCA.  American groups have backed the formal challenge set forward by U.S. Trade Representative, saying Canada is undermining market access that it agreed to provide in the agreement.  This is the s...

According to the American Farm Bureau Federation, Canada intends to launch another dispute under the U.S.-Mexico -Canada Agreement over U.S. antidumping and countervailing duties on softwood lumber.  Canada previously brought challenges under USMCA against the increased duties on Canadian softwood lumber imports.  Th...

In May, the U.S. Trade Representative’s office initiated the second USMCA dispute regarding Canadian dairy tariff-rate quota policies.  The TRQs deny allocation access to eligible applicants, including retailers, food service operators, and other types of importers, and impose new conditions on the allocation and use of the TRQs. Wiscon...

In early May, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told his Canadian counterpart: "...we were very disappointed, greatly disappointed, in the Canadian response..." to the successful U.S. challenge to Canada's dairy tariff rate quota policies within the USMCA ...

The Agriculture Secretary shared his conversation with his Canadian counterpart this weekend regarding dairy tariff rate quota disputes within the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement. "I had a very frank and very specific conversation with her that we were greatly disappointed in the Canadian response ...

Earlier this week, the National Milk Producers Federation and the U.S. Dairy Export Council called on the U.S. government to levy retaliatory tariffs on Canada. The call comes after Ottawa made clear that it refuses to meet its signed treaty obligations under the U ...

The first ever USMCA agreement dispute settlement panel ruled earlier this year that Canada violated the agreement via its dairy tariff-free quota allocation process. As Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack observed at the time why the US pursued dispute settlement: "The USMCA agreement, our view was not being enforced the way it was intended ...