U.S. requests second dispute over Canadian dairy import quotas

The Biden management said on Wednesday it had been asking for that an extra dispute settlement panel beneath the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) be created to examine a trade dispute with Canada over dairy import quotas.

America is alleging that Canada’s dairy tariff-rate quota allocation measures deny access to eligible applicants, including stores, as well as other kinds of importers, and enforce brand new conditions in the allocation and make use of of this quotas, in accordance with a declaration from U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai’s office.

U.S. can also be alleging that Canada undermines the marketplace access so it consented to offer within the USMCA.

“We communicated obviously to Canada that its brand new policies aren’t in line with the USMCA and stop U.S. workers, manufacturers, farmers, and exporters from having the complete advantage of the marketplace access that Canada dedicated to beneath the USMCA,” Tai said within the declaration.

Tai’s workplace advertised success for Washington previously in 2010 in the 1st dispute settlement panel ever brought underneath the (USMCA) that took impact in 2020. Canada said the dispute panel’s report discovered “overwhelmingly” in its benefit. 

(Reporting by Ismail Shakil in Ottawa)