Canada says ready to impose tariffs on U.S. goods
Canada says ready to impose tariffs on U.S. goods
By Meatingplace Editors on 5/23/2014
Canada’s agriculture minister said his country is ready to impose tariffs on certain U.S. goods as soon it gets approval to do so from the World Trade Organization, the Calgary Herald reported.
Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz was quoted as saying he assured U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack that “Canada will not blink.” Ritz was speaking to reporters on Wednesday following the first meeting of NAFTA agriculture ministers in Mexico.
Canada is calling into question Washington’s new country-of-origin labelling law, which it contends is more restrictive and harmful to Canadian beef cattle and pigs imported into the United States than an earlier version of the legislation that was found to violate WTO rules.
The U.S. law requires meat products to be sorted, packaged and labeled separately depending on where the animal was born, raised and slaughtered.
The WTO is expected to rule as early as this fall on whether Canada can go ahead with retaliatory tariffs, according to the Herald article. The government has said U.S. goods it may target include beef, pork, cereals, baked goods and fresh fruit.
Ritz also said he is calling on the Mexican government to release its own list of U.S. products it might target with tariffs, according to the paper.
This is proof positive that multinational firms are using our trade treaties to write in protections for themselves when the trade agreements are written.
Games, games, and more games by U.S. globalists who want to hide the truth about where Americans get their food. They want to substitute the lowest cost food from anywhere in the world despite the differing standards in quality or production. Does anyone want to buy pet food from China? Was any globalist selling these type of poisonous goods held accountable for the damages to people’s pets?
No accountability and higher margins is what they are after.
Why we allow them to sit in these secret trade negotiations, I don’t know, except that it just another pay off for the globalists through politicians. The president nor the Congress should be able to sell the food safety of Americans no matter what price.
It seems that political elite is working every angle they can to sell out the public interest behind closed doors for their own gain.
We simply have the best politicians that money can buy.