USTR requests USMCA panel in dairy dispute against Canada

The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative on Tuesday escalated a U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement dispute over Canada’s dairy tariff-rate quotas, requesting for the first time a panel to review the country’s allocation measures. The U.S. specifically is challenging Canada’s decision – laid out in notices issued last June and October, as well as earlier this month – to set aside a percentage of each of its dairy tariff-rate quotas exclusively for Canadian processors. “These measures deny the ability of U.S. dairy...