‘We will not stand down,’ VP Pence warns China
But the Harper Conservatives opened the door to change when they agreed to ease restrictions on European cheese imports through the Canada-European Union trade deal, which was signed and came into force under the Trudeau Liberals.
He also slammed Beijing for placing a multi-page advertisement extolling the virtues of US-China trade in the Des Moines Register, the highest-circulation newspaper in Iowa, a swing state whose longtime governor Terry Branstad is Trump’s ambassador to Beijing. “When this improved agreement is implemented, North American trade will be preserved and modernized for the 21st century – just as we set out to do”.
“He traded us away”, he said.
As Strathcona County’s dairy industry continues to decline, milk producers throughout Alberta are voicing concern over the new United States-Mexico-Canada trade agreement. The pact, now called the U.S. -Mexico-Canada Agreement or USMCA (aka NAFTA 2.0), updates the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and promises to lead “to freer, fairer markets, and to robust economic growth” in the three-country region.
In less than 24 hours, China responded with $60 billion worth of tariffs on USA goods beginning on September 24.
A trade deal that’s good for Canada, for Canadian families, and for Canadian businesses. The United States and Mexico would face the same obligations in similar talks.
The USMCA also stipulates that any changes made to a country’s class system can not be implemented immediately. While those sales only represented about 1 percent of Wisconsin’s annual milk production, the shock of seeing farmers lose their buyers overnight sparked national efforts to oppose Canada’s move. “It shouldn’t be based on a formal vetting of trade negotiations by a third country”.
‘China is meddling in America’s democracy, ‘ Pence said, calling it a ‘a comprehensive and coordinated campaign to undermine support for the president, our agenda and our nation´s most cherished ideals.
The Ontario government accused the Trudeau government of jeopardizing Canada’s sovereignty in the proposed USMCA.
He said this could mean a healthier dairy economy throughout the Midwest. “We fought to be a sovereign nation, not to give our rights to the Americans”. For example, the food safety chapter includes the same “sound science” language championed by former EPA administrator Scott Pruitt – an approach created to make it easier to attack food safety protections as illegal trade barriers, making it harder to uphold or implement food safety rules. WSDF will be preparing questions to ask the congressional delegation regarding how Canada is going to dismantle the class 7 pricing, what is being done with the surplus milk, how the agreement is structured and what is included in the increased Canadian market access. “Nothing in this agreement would prevent Canada from deepening its trade ties with other countries”.
As reported by expressnews.com, the fate of USMCA is far from certain.
It acknowledged Washington had been critical of aspects of Chinese policies in the past but said this was the first time a senior official had delivered a broadside against China across such an extensive array of issues.
While China does maintain global efforts to influence overseas Chinese and has been accused of several high-profile cyber raids on American computer systems, there has so far been no public evidence of the sort of influence operations the US has said Russian Federation carried out in 2016.
What we do know is that this deal is a giant step backwards for people, communities and the environment and will encourage more warming of our planet.
The United States Mexico Canada Agreement was finalized Sunday night, hours before a USA -imposed deadline.