President Trump Blasts Canadian Dairy Farmers, Again

The tax affects about 70 dairy producers in NY and Wisconsin.

“President Trump and I spoke yesterday about reversing Canada’s new and unfair dairy-pricing policy”.

US dairy trade groups said they were encouraged by Trump’s statement.

Many farmers are now trying to find a new outlet for their milk by May 1.

In response to this push, Canadian farm groups, such as Dairy Farmers of Canada, have argued that programs like Class 6 are domestic policies that help the Canadian market adapt to changes within its borders and are not meant to restrict American exports.

But MacNaughton said there is too much at stake to let anything interfere with trade between the two countries.

US dairy officials weren’t buying it.

“It’s not going to be happening for long”, Trump said in a state, that with NY, exports much of the ultra-filtered milk used in cheesemaking.

Canada regulates milk prices in a much more aggressive fashion than the USA government does, but the Canadian government had not lowered the price of Canadian-made ultra-filtered milk until recently. Canada also imposes import tariffs on ultra-filtered milk, a protein liquid concentrate used to make cheese.

MacNaughton backed the organization’s position that Canada has done nothing to block U.S. imports, and that the predicament is the result of an “over-saturated” market that has led to lower prices. “If you know what your competition’s price is, then you will make yours a little less”. University of Calgary economics professor Eugene Beaulieu has called Canadian marketing boards perhaps “the most visible and explicit barriers to provincial trade”.

On Thursday, Wisconsin lawmakers held a conference call with Canadian government and agricultural representatives to discuss the crisis, although it appears little was resolved.

“Canada. what they’ve done to our dairy farm workers is a disgrace“.

“We’re also going to stand up for our dairy farmers in Wisconsin”, Trump told the crowd.

Farmers anxious over future of dairy. Under this scheme, prices for dairy products are set based on the average costs of production.

Does Canada really hurt American dairy producers?

“We didn’t think they would go through with it, at the end of the day it was just a campaign promise”, Schumer said.

Estimates of how much of Canada’s softwood lumber is shipped to the USA are as high as 70 per cent, but the Trudeau government has placed a priority on finding new trade markets in Asia – especially China – for a variety of goods and services. Trudeau, however, has long insisted Canada is already doing its fair share.

Trudeau is anxious about Trump’s protectionist talk and has repeatedly sent his ministers to the U.S.to talk about the importance of the trade relationship.

Trump said he wouldn’t allow the situation to continue and brought up a separate conflict with Canada over timber. It said the US has “raised serious concerns with Class 7”. That $15 billion gap was down 14 percent from 2014, the trade office said.

“Time and again, Canada has demonstrated its disregard of its dairy commitments to the United States – hampering America’s exports to Canada – while pursuing ways to use its government-controlled system to unfairly dump greater Canadian exports in global markets”, BNN reported.

Gentiloni said Italy supports free-trade agreements and its economy relies on exports.

What his anger fails to reflect, however, is that the United States has a significant and widening dairy trade surplus with Canada, reaching almost $450 million in 2016 from just $85 million a decade earlier, according to Statistics Canada. “Canada is our second-biggest trading partner and we’re operating in a trade deficit”.