The National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF) and the U.S. Dairy Export Council (USDEC) commended the recent announcement that the U.S. Trade Representative has formally moved to advance a U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA) dispute settlement proceeding and establish a second panel to determine whether Canada has been in violation of its market access obligations under the agreement. Canada’s unwillingness to abide by the tariff-rate quota provisions of USMCA has been an issue since the agreement’s implementation began. The United States won its first dispute panel on the matter in December 2021, which found that Canada was reserving most of its preferential dairy...

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