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FIRST READING: Why the Americans are coming hard for supply management

Both Democrats and Republicans are yearning to take the boots to Canada over milk

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As the U.S. and Canada lurch towards a renegotiation of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), American officials are signalling that they intend to make this a final reckoning for the Canadian system of supply management.

A new White House report on “foreign trade barriers” is once again dominated by mentions of Canadian border controls on foreign dairy. A bipartisan coalition of U.S. Congresspeople — including some vocal opponents of U.S. President Donald Trump’s various trade wars — are nevertheless urging the White House to take a hard line on Canadian milk policy.

And then, in Congressional testimony last week, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer suggested that issues such as dairy can either be addressed in negotiations, or via “enforcement actions.”

“We have raised it repeatedly and frequently over the past year,” Greer said in response to a question about Canadian border controls on dairy. “They have made no commitments on this front.”

It echoed Greer’s comments spoken before the same committee in December. In a speech summarizing Washington’s grievances with Ottawa, at the top of Greer’s list was “market access for U.S. dairy products.”

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