U.S. again requests USMCA consultations with Canada over dairy TRQs

The U.S. has for a second time used the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement’s dispute settlement mechanism to request consultations with Canada over what the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative is calling new restrictions on U.S. dairy products. USTR announced on Wednesday that it is has submitted a formal consultation request “challenging Canada’s dairy tariff-rate quota (TRQ) allocation measures, which deny allocation access to eligible applicants, including retailers, food service operators, and other types of importers, and impose new conditions on the...