Articles Tagged with ''cheese''

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack on Monday left open the possibility of retaliatory tariffs against Canada for again making what the U.S. sees as an unacceptable proposal to alter its dairy quota system.

It’s been three weeks since Canada submitted its proposal to fix the way it runs its dairy quotas under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, but there’s still no word from the Biden administration on accepting it and preventing yet another trade dispute between Ottawa and Washington that could affect far more than just dairy.

The U.S. dairy sector is celebrating a judicial victory in the ongoing battle over the use of common cheese names after a federal judge ruled French and Swiss producers don't have an exclusive right to the name Gruyere.

The U.S. announced Tuesday that it has won the first official dispute under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement after a three-member USMCA panel agreed that Canada breached dairy quota pledges under the trade pact.

The U.S. dairy sector has evolved into an exporting powerhouse, but the international supply chain crisis is hitting the industry so hard that some are beginning to fear production may deteriorate.

Multiple breakdowns in how goods are transported across the country and around the globe are worsening crises in a food and agriculture sector that is already bleeding profits and customers, according to witnesses at a House hearing Wednesday.

The U.S. still only has a relatively small slice of the Chinese market but American whey, skim milk powder, cheese and other products are reaching new highs as China recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic and African swine fever.

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai announced Tuesday that the U.S. is requesting a dispute panel to challenge Canada’s operation of dairy tariff-rate quotas that it agreed to under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

U.S. dairy farmers and exporters are offering a united front against the latest trade threat out of Mexico – proposed new standards that could make it more difficult, and a lot more expensive, to ship hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of cheese south of the border every year.