14-Jun-2017
Montreal Gazette
Quebec cheesemakers face $1.5 billion in losses due to new tariff rules that accompany a trade agreement between Canada and Europe, according to the Union des producteurs agricoles (UPA).
14-Jun-2017
The Globe and Mail
The dairy lobby’s 15-page letter had two main requests regarding Canada: a reversal of new rules on ultrafiltered milk products and increased access to the Canadian market that exceeds the 3.25 per cent offered in the early version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
13-Jun-2017
Farmers Weekly
A two-year investigation found evidence some meat-processing plants in Brazil had been selling rotten beef and poultry on to the export market by bribing health inspectors and politicians to get the necessary paperwork.
2-Jun-2017
Latin American Herald Tribune
Officials from both countries decided to expand the trade in agricultural products (mainly fruit).
1-Jun-2017
Focus on the Global South
In the recent “RCEP 18th Round of Talks,” members of civil society organizations and social movements presented their positions vis-à-vis the RCEP.
30-May-2017
Barbados Today
Chief Executive Officer of the Barbados Agricultural Society knocks EPA and other trade agreements.
24-May-2017
Via Campesina
The International Peasant Movement La Via Campesina and its members, the European Coordination Via Campesina, together with Japan Family Farmers Movement are calling for an immediate end to the negotiations for the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and Japan.
22-May-2017
Revista Chacra
The opening of the US market to Argentine beef exports and its continued openness to biodiesel from this country will be made conditional on a demand that Argentina change its legislation to expedite the approval of patents on seeds waiting in the pipeline.
22-May-2017
Financial Express
The country’s two major dairy cooperatives have urged the government to keep dairy products outside the ongoing trade negotiations with various blocs including hugely milk surplus regions.
