US Dairy Groups Push Again on Canadian TRQs
Three U.S. dairy groups told the Canadian government in a March 5 letter that they welcome that nation's move to update its tariff rate quotas to “ensure that access to Canada’s dairy market is as close as possible to the market shares that would be expected in the absence of TRQ restrictions.”
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The National Milk Producers Federation, the International Dairy Foods Association and the U.S. Dairy Export Council in a March 8 news release shared a copy of their submission on how the TRQ administration should be improved.
“Canada has an obligation to ensure that its TRQ administration enables importers the opportunity to fully utilize TRQ quantities,” they wrote. Some proposed approaches to quota reallocation “would limit that opportunity by limiting allocations only to those entities that hold an allocation (and may not use them) or to a subset of allocation holders within a pool. Allocations must be given to those eligible applicants who will actually use the allocation and import the product.”
Canada needs “to stop manipulating its dairy TRQs; its actions have not only negatively impacted U.S. dairy farmers and manufacturers, but also constrained many Canadian companies from being able to make use of these new TRQs to expand their supply options,” U.S. Dairy Export Council CEO Krysta Harden said in the release.