Ways & Means Panel Addresses Dairy Complaints, Largely About Canada

A Ways & Means trade subcommittee hearing on agricultural trade barriers highlighted complaints by the National Milk Producers Federation and its congressional supporters about Canada's efforts to curtail duty-free, quota-free U.S. imports of milk protein concentrate that have replaced Canadian milk in cheese making because it is shipped in liquid form. In the June 14 hearing, NMPF also laid out its complaints about the European Union's push to strengthen the protection of cheese names that have a geographic origin in...