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Sources: Transition slowed U.S. challenge of Canada dairy practices under USMCA

April 21, 2021 at 12:00 PM
Consultations with Canada over dairy tariff-rate quotas, which the Trump administration initiated as the first dispute under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, have lost steam in the early days of the Biden administration, sources tell Inside U.S. Trade , though U.S. industry advocates remain hopeful that the case will be reinvigorated by the new trade team. Former U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer last December requested USMCA dispute settlement consultations with Ottawa -- the first-ever “enforcement action” pursued under the trade deal, USTR...


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