Obama upbeat on prospects for Pacific trade deal
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Wednesday he was confident Pacific Rim nations could nail down an agreement on a free-trade pact this year although approval by the U.S. Congress was not guaranteed.
TPP: Trans Pacific Partnership talks fail in face of NZ, Canada dairy clash
Pacific Rim trade ministers have failed to clinch a deal to free up trade between a dozen nations after a dispute flared between Japan and North America over autos, New Zealand dug in over dairy trade and no agreement was reached on monopoly periods for next-generation drugs.
The US Is Threatening Canada Over Some Cheese and Milk, and Canada Thinks That's Mean
Members of the United States Congress are threatening that if Canada doesn’t axe its 45 year-old collectivist regime for milk and cheese, then it may be blocked from the expansive Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
Obama Urged To Toss Canada Out Of TPP Trade Talks Over Dairy Supply Management: Reports
U.S. politicians are pressuring the Obama administration to leave Canada out of a major and controversial trade deal, if Canada doesn’t agree to deregulate its dairy and poultry industries and open them up to foreign competition.
Watson: Time to stop milking consumers
Scrolling through some data the other day — it’s the sort of thing we economists do — I ran across a number that struck me. It was on the website of the Canadian Dairy Information Centre, in their historical statistics section. In 2013, the latest year listed, Canada produced 78.2 million hectolitres of milk.
Ottawa plans compensation for farmers to blunt impact of trade deal
The federal government is preparing a financial compensation package for Canadian dairy and poultry farmers as a way to blunt the impact of signing onto a massive Pacific Rim trade deal which could allow a surge of agricultural imports from other countries, sources said.
TPP deal gallops closer, but NZ seeks more dairy gains
The latest moves by the United States Senate are a big step forward and put the prospect of a 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal into the home straight.
Pacific trade deal could help Kings’ economy
Dairy, beef likely to benefit from proposed trans-pacific partnership.
China's Unprecedented Investment Offensive in Latin America
While President Obama spars with Democratic critics over fast-track authority to promote free trade in China’s Pacific rim, the Chinese have unleashed an unprecedented investment offensive in South America, Uncle Sam’s erstwhile backyard.
#Dairy Doesn't Back Down from Fighting EU's Food Name Claims
Congress members urge the Obama administration to address EU export barriers based on common food names.