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VanRaes: TPP deal seen shrinking supply-managed markets

By Shannon VanRaes, GFM Network News October 5, 2015

CORRECTION, Oct. 7: Canada’s supply managed sectors can expect to lose $4.3 billion to foreign interests in the 15 years following the implementation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership. After years of negotiations, Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the U.S. and Vietnam reached an agreement Monday morning, which includes granting access […] Read more

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Election shifts attention to trade deal as race narrows

By GFM Network News October 5, 2015

Ottawa | Reuters –– Trailing in second place with two weeks left before Canada’s election, Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced a new trade deal Monday that largely protects the key agricultural voting bloc, putting pressure on opponents who had hoped to have more to attack. Harper touted the Trans-Pacific Partnership as a good deal […] Read more

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Canada says TPP offers limited access to dairy market

By GFM Network News October 5, 2015

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada said on Monday that a major trade deal agreed by 12 Pacific nations would only allow limited access to protected Canadian domestic dairy and poultry markets, a politically sensitive issue ahead of the Oct. 19 election. Officials said the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would offer up just 3.25 per cent of […] Read more

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After five years of negotiations, TPP talks near deal

By GFM Network News October 4, 2015

Atlanta | Reuters — A dozen Pacific nations closed in on a sweeping free trade pact on Sunday in Atlanta after a breakthrough over how long a monopoly pharmaceutical companies should be given on new biotech drugs. The issue has pitted the U.S., which has argued for longer protections, against Australia and five other delegations […] Read more

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TPP deal near resolution, Japan says

By Reuters, GFM Network News October 2, 2015

Atlanta | Reuters — Japan’s Economy Minister Akira Amari said on Friday negotiators were close to reaching a sweeping Pacific Rim trade deal, citing progress on the remaining issues involving autos, dairy products and intellectual property protections for expensive biologic drugs. Amari, who spoke to reporters before a meeting of the 12 trade ministers represented in […] Read more

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NDP would not feel bound by Pacific trade deal

By GFM Network News October 2, 2015

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada’s main opposition party said Friday that if it won an Oct. 19 election, it would not feel bound by the terms of a major Pacific trade deal the ruling Conservatives are negotiating in the United States. The New Democrats, currently trailing third in the polls, said in a letter to […] Read more

TPP trade ministers, shown here in July in Maui, have meetings in Atlanta on Wednesday and Thursday. (USTR.gov)

Dairy Cattle, Livestock, Markets, Poultry/Eggs, Reuters

TPP trade ministers push to wrap up ambitious trade deal

By GFM Network News September 30, 2015

Atlanta | Reuters — Pacific trade ministers readied on Wednesday to close the biggest trade deal in a generation but warned there was still work to be done on issues ranging from intellectual property to trade in dairy and automobiles. Australian Trade Minister Andrew Robb said ministers from the 12 countries negotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership […] Read more

Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz, shown here in February in Brampton, Ont., said farmers and processors would be “compensated” for losses incurred through any increased market access granted under a TPP deal. (Agr.gc.ca)

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Canada to pay farmers for any losses under TPP deal, Ritz says

By Rod Nickel, GFM Network News September 30, 2015

Reuters — Canadian farmers will receive government compensation for any losses resulting from a Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal, the country’s agriculture minister said Wednesday in a discussion about the nation’s protected farm sectors. The U.S., New Zealand and Australia want Canada to start dismantling a system of supply and import controls over dairy, poultry […] Read more

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Farmers, upset over TPP talks, take cows to Parliament

By GFM Network News September 29, 2015

Ottawa | Reuters — Unhappy Canadian dairy farmers parked dozens of tractors in central Ottawa and walked their cows down the main street opposite Parliament on Tuesday to protest trade talks they said could cripple them. Canada is one of 12 Pacific Rim countries trying to nail down a trade deal in Atlanta this week. […] Read more

(Tkeban Jahannes photo courtesy AtlantaGa.gov via Flickr)

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Producer groups lobby for TPP deal in Atlanta

By Grainews Staff, GFM Network News September 29, 2015

Several Canadian grain and livestock commodity groups have representatives in Atlanta this week pressing for federal negotiators to keep Canada in play on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Trade ministers from the 12 TPP countries — also including the U.S., Mexico, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Peru, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei Darussalam — are meeting in […] Read more

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U.S. grains: Corn rebounds from contract lows on short covering, bargain buying

U.S. livestock: Cattle futures come down from highs

Entomologist tests trap crops and marigolds to repel flea beetles at an Ag in Motion

Tag Archives TPP

VanRaes: TPP deal seen shrinking supply-managed markets

Election shifts attention to trade deal as race narrows

Canada says TPP offers limited access to dairy market

After five years of negotiations, TPP talks near deal

TPP deal near resolution, Japan says

NDP would not feel bound by Pacific trade deal

TPP trade ministers push to wrap up ambitious trade deal

Canada to pay farmers for any losses under TPP deal, Ritz says

Farmers, upset over TPP talks, take cows to Parliament

Producer groups lobby for TPP deal in Atlanta

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