US EditionU.S. trade representative says access to Canada’s dairy market key to CUSMA review
U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer demands Canada improve dairy market access and address digital trade barriers as conditions for extending the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Agreement.
- On Wednesday, U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer publicly outlined conditions in a presentation to the Senate Finance Committee and House Ways and Means Committee tied to the six-year CUSMA review next year.
- U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said Canada must boost market access for U.S. dairy and address exports amid allegations of dumping, and criticized the Online Streaming Act as discriminatory against U.S. tech firms.
- Among other frictions, Greer named provincial bans on U.S. alcohol, discriminatory procurement in Ontario, Quebec and British Columbia, complex customs for Canadian recipients of U.S. exports, and Alberta’s treatment of Montana power providers.
- USTR Jamieson Greer warned USTR will negotiate firmly and recommend renewal only if issues are resolved, noting President Donald Trump's tariffs this year have complicated talks with Canada.
- For Mexico, Greer noted the U.S. will press on labour practices and energy renationalization while U.S. businesses from airlines to winemakers urge preserving North American free trade.
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The Washington Trade Representative said that the next revision of the Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CAUM) would depend on resolving concerns about Canadian policies on dairy products, alcohol and digital services.
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Top U.S. trade negotiator Jamieson Greer said Canada must change a number of its policies including in the dairy sector if it wants the United States to commit to a long-term renewal of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). In a portion of his closed-door remarks to members of Congress that were released to the public Dec. 17, Greer said that a “rubberstamp” of USMCA at next year’s July 1 joint review is not in the American “national interes…
U.S. trade rep says access to Canada's dairy market key to CUSMA review
Canada will have to increase access to the United States when it comes to dairy products as part of a renegotiated U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement. U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer told members of the U.S. Congress on Thursday that concerns related to dairy market access in Canada and its exports of certain dairy products are part of […]
Free the beer and dairy: Trump administration lays out must-do conditions for CUSMA review
U.S. President Donald Trump's point-person on trade laid out a series of conditions Wednesday that Canada must meet in order to extend the Canada-U.S.-Mexico agreement (CUSMA) when it comes up for a review next year — revealing publicly for the first time what the administration expects Prime Minister Mark Carney to do to keep the pact for the long term.
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