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Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Canada to review TPP pact, seek public input

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Ottawa | Reuters –– Canada’s new Liberal government will review a landmark Pacific trade deal negotiated by the outgoing Conservatives and wants public input on the accord, Trade Minister Chrystia Freeland said Thursday. Some Canadian dairy farmers and auto workers say their jobs could be threatened by the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership, which seeks to cut […] Read more
Canada’s new Agriculture and Agri-Foods Minister Lawrence MacAulay (l) is sworn-in during a ceremony at Rideau Hall in Ottawa November 4, 2015. Photo: REUTERS/Chris Wattie

Lawrence MacAulay sworn in as Canada’s new agriculture minister

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Ottawa/Manitoba Co-operator – Only hours after being sworn in by Governor General David Johnston and mere minutes after leaving his first cabinet meeting, Canada’s newly minted Minister of Agriculture paused to speak with reporters gathered on Parliament Hill Nov. 3. “I’m certainly pleased,” said Lawrence MacAulay. “Being a dairy farmer and a seed potato farmer […] Read more
Improving grain transportation and trade top the new Liberal government’s agricultural agenda. Photo: Allan Dawson
Crops, Livestock

New Liberal government has lots on its ag ‘to do’ list

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Manitoba Co-operator – Grain transportation and trade top of the new Liberal government’s agricultural agenda, says veteran Saskatchewan MP and former agriculture minister Ralph Goodale. Other priorities include determining if farm aid programs are adequate, investing in infrastructure to protect soil and water and refocusing the government’s role in scientific research. The Canadian Wheat Board […] Read more
Beef Cattle, CCA reports

CCA Report: Another push for TPP

From the October 26 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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The volatility that shook the cattle markets in late September brought an end (at least temporarily) to the record price run that had been sustained for much of the last year. Although the dip in cattle prices reflect typical seasonal price fluctuations, the impact of the falling price in the markets is felt far more […] Read more
Livestock, Markets, Reuters

Indonesia’s president says country intends to join TPP

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Washington | Reuters –– Indonesian President Joko Widodo, speaking after a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday, said his country intends to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal the U.S. has forged with Canada and 10 other countries. “We are the largest economy in Southeast Asia,” Widodo said through a translator. “And Indonesia […] Read more
Beef Cattle, News Roundup

Beef producers applaud TPP Agreement

News Roundup from the October 26, 2015 issue of Canadian Cattlemen

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No one was happier about the signing of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement than the Canadian Cattlemen’s Association (CCA). The improved access alone promised in the agreement could double or even triple exports of Canadian beef to Japan, which amounted to $103 million in 2014. “This is really fantastic news for Canada’s beef producers,” says CCA […] Read more
New Zealand Trade Minister Tim Groser, shown here last November, doesn’t expect a Trans-Pacific trade deal to kill Canada’s supply management systems. (Beehive.govt.nz)
Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs

TPP not the death of supply management, N.Z. trade chief says

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Hamilton, N.Z. | MCO — Canada’s supply-managed sectors should not worry about the Trans-Pacific Partnership, from where New Zealand’s Trade Minister Tim Groser sits. “I can understand why producer groups would wish to perceive this in a different way, but this is not the end of supply management,” he said here Thursday. “I don’t think […] Read more
(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)
Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs

Van Camp: Olive branches offered through new gaps in tariff wall

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What do you get when you mix milk and eggs with a looming election? A “free” trade deal that gained major market access in Asia for Canada, but managed to keeps the tariffs for Canada’s supply-managed commodities. After all the barking from New Zealand, cows parading on Parliament Hill, tweets, heart-wrenching videos on Facebook, election […] Read more
(Dave Bedard photo)
General, Markets, Reuters

U.S. hopes to release TPP text in 30 days

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Reuters — The U.S. administration hopes to release the full text of a Pacific trade deal within the next 30 days, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman said in an interview with CNN. The U.S. sealed the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) with 11 trading partners this week, after more than five years of negotiations. “The lawyers are […] Read more

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