The House Ways and Means Committee focused on expanding trade at Tuesday’s hearing.
Former agricultural trade ambassador Gregg Doud, who is now the president and chief executive officer of the National Milk Producers Federation, spoke about the importance of trade enforcement.
Doud said 44 percent of U.S. dairy exports are shipped to our neighbors in Canada and Mexico.
“Mexico has largely been a positive trading partner, Canada has not,” said Doud. “Unfortunately, Canada has a long history of attempting to undermine previously agreed-to market access, a trend that has continued under USMCA.
Through manipulative tariff rate quota policies and a systemic circumvention of USMCA’s dairy protein export disciplines, Canada has cheated U.S. exporters out of market access benefits promised to them under the agreements and has tried to dispose of growing volumes of artificially low-priced dairy protein into global markets.”
Doud also criticized the European Union, saying the EU exports $3 billion worth of dairy products to the United States while the U.S. exports $167 million in dairy products to the EU.
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