Pork Producers Hope for Limited Change in Hog and Pork Movements under NAFTA Renegotiation

Feb 07, 2017

The Chair of the Saskatchewan Pork Development Board remains hopeful the renegotiation of the North American Free Trade Agreement will have a limited impact on the movement of live hogs and pork across the Canada U.S. border.

U.S. President Donald Trump has withdrawn the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade agreement and plans to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Florian Possberg, the Chair of the Saskatchewan Pork Development Board says, while the U.S. withdrawal from the TPP may actually benefit the Canadian pork industry, there are many unanswered questions when it comes to the renegotiation of NAFTA.

Florian Possberg-Saskatchewan Pork Development Board:

My take is that it seems that more of the irritation with NAFTA is between the United States and Mexico than it is with the United States and Canada.

It would appear that any changes to NAFTA would probably be more significant to Mexico than it would be to Canada but again, at this point, we've got an indication that the new President and his administration have identified trade as an issue and quite frankly they've stated quite bluntly that the Americans have been taken advantage of in many of the trade agreements that are international in scope.

Source : Farmscape

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