Inside Trade

October 8, 2024

Milk rises to the top of the Trump trade agenda

April 24, 2017 at 9:25 AM
President Trump called it “ another typical one-sided deal against the United States.” Prime Minister Trudeau , in response, said “ let’s not pretend we’re in a global free market when it comes to agriculture.” And with those words the long-simmering dispute over milk-product exports to Canada had boiled over into a major trade event – the Trump administration’s first big-deal trade fracas, fraught with unknown but potentially weighty implications for the upcoming renegotiation of the North American Free Trade...

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