Dairy Groups Urge Trump to Bring Up Canadian Milk Prices in Meeting With Trudeau
The National Milk Producers Federation, the U.S. Dairy Export Council, the International Dairy Foods Association and the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture on Feb. 13 urged President Donald Trump to address Canada’s “protectionist” milk pricing policy in his…
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meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the same day. The groups said (here) that the “scheme” is slated to spread from implementation in Ontario in 2016 to the rest of the country in 2017, is “expressly intended” to cut milk imports from the U.S., and has already cost U.S. companies $150 million in exports. The coalition also cited a Feb. 7 meeting between House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., and Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland, after which Ryan identified dairy market access as a “key issue” the two nations must improve upon. "American dairy producers and processors want a fair and level trade relationship, and have deep concerns about proposed changes to the Canadian supply-side management system, which are designed, in part, to discourage U.S. exports,” U.S. Dairy Export Council CEO and former U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in a statement. The White House didn’t immediately comment.