Donald Trump threatens Canada over milk imports
By Shelly Foster Apr 29, 2017
The law Congress passed to enact the trade pact might remain in place, forcing Trump to wrangle with lawmakers and raising questions about the president's authority to raise tariffs on Mexican and Canadian imports. This has anxious a lot of experts along the border. He says strong trade partnerships have never been more important. It may simply reduce consumption through higher prices charged by domestic suppliers, or lead to increased imports from a different country.
This includes urging the Trudeau government to retaliate by banning thermal coal exports from B.C. ports to the U.S.
Canada shouldn't be able to "change the rules on [the U.S.] in the middle of the game", Tom Vilsack, current head of the U.S. Dairy Export Council, told CNBC.
The order also directs his energy secretary to review regulations overseeing drilling and former President Barack Obama's five-year drilling plan.
"The supply-management system allows hard-working Ontario farmers and processors to consistently meet the demand for safe, high-quality products for Ontario and Canadian consumers", Wynne and Leal stated in a joint press release.
"NAFTA, at the end of the day, I think will be saved". And you know, there's a little bit of gamesmanship involved. "The leaders agreed on the convenience of maintaining the North American Free Trade Agreement and working together with Canada to carry out a successful renegotiation for the benefit of all three countries", the statement read.
"Canada has made business for our dairy farmers in Wisconsin and other border states very hard".
Trump could withdraw from NAFTA - but he would have to give six months' notice.
While the dairy industry is by far the smallest in Trump's sights, Burney said no matter the industry, Canada should not be so eager to offer appeasement in the form of renegotiating NAFTA. Ian Lee is a professor at Carleton University in Ottawa.
You see, Lambeau Field isn't the only venue where cheeseheads like to cultivate a home-field advantage.
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The talks between the United States and Mexico are expected to be key in the renegotiations.
Stories suddenly appeared in the Washington Post, Politico, CNN and the New York Times saying sources within the White House were seriously considering a draft executive order to cancel the agreement.
- Liberal Leader Christy Clark ratchets up the pressure in the trade dispute between the United States and Canada over softwood lumber.
Answering a reporter's question Thursday about the possible timeframe for NAFTA talks, Trump said: "It'll start very soon".
Although the policy entailed a heavy domestic subsidy cost, it lowered the prices for this milk class to create incentives to produce domestic ultra-filtered milk and better compete with USA -produced imports.
-Canada trade is more complicated than that dairy farm we visited. Right now, those products cross borders tax-free. Instead, thousands of companies have factories and shareholders and investors and workers on both sides of the border.
Jennifer Sauer said they can not just stop milking the cows.
"They say that's what America is, a free enterprise world". He often said he would either "get rid of it" or "terminate it" or "renegotiate" it.
Another trade analyst said Trump needed to get back some of the leverage lost from basic realities of this negotiation - that he's the only who needs to keep this promise on a new NAFTA and that the clock isn't his friend.
And that, according to numerous trade-watchers, is what this week was really about: leverage.
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