Insights and Stories on Cheese

U.S. set to widen trade war on EU front

Oct. 2, 2019 at 7:24 pm CDT

London/Brussels/Washington | Reuters — The United States won approval on Wednesday to impose import tariffs on US$7.5 billion worth of European aircraft and agricultural goods over illegal EU subsidies handed to Airbus, threatening to trigger a tit-for-tat transatlantic trade war as the global economy falters. The decision by the World […]

U.S., Japan sign limited trade deal

Sep. 25, 2019 at 5:05 pm CDT

By David Lawder Jeff Mason

Parmalat’s play for Kraft cheeses clears regulators

May. 31, 2019 at 8:33 pm CDT

By GFM Staff

Canadian dairies get significant control over imports under TPP

Nov. 27, 2018 at 4:21 pm CST

Parmalat to buy Kraft’s Ontario cheese plant, brands

Nov. 16, 2018 at 5:25 am CST

By GFM Staff

Agropur to shut Monteregie fine cheese plant

Sep. 23, 2018 at 6:43 pm CDT

A Quebec cheese plant formerly known as a top maker of Camembert- and Brie-type cheeses is set to shut permanently in April after five years under Agropur’s ownership. Quebec-based Agropur, North America’s biggest dairy co-operative, announced Friday it will start winding down operations at its Saint-Damase cheese plant in January […]

By GFM Staff

‘Buyer beware’ on Canada’s cheese concessions, EU exporters say

Sep. 13, 2018 at 9:31 pm CDT

Toronto/Brussels | Reuters — A trade deal meant to give European cheesemakers more access to the Canadian market is falling short of its promise in its first full year, government data show, frustrating the European industry, which blames a year-old Ottawa quota system. Under the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement […]

By Allison Martell philip-blenkinsop

Babybel cheesemakers to set up Quebec plant

Jul. 12, 2018 at 7:19 pm CDT

The makers of those little individual cheese snacks in the red wax shells plan to start producing them at their own new Canadian plant starting in early 2020. France’s Bel Group, whose brands in Canada include The Laughing Cow, Boursin and the aforementioned Mini Babybel, announced Thursday it will put […]

By Staff

Saputo urges end to contentious Class 7 system

Jun. 18, 2018 at 1:42 pm CDT

Winnipeg | Reuters –– Saputo, one of Canada’s largest dairies, supports ending a domestic milk ingredient pricing system that has angered the United States, CEO Lino Saputo Jr. said on Monday, showing a rare crack in solidarity among processors and the country’s dairy farmers. The Class 7 pricing agreement, struck […]

By Rod Nickel

Mexico hits back on U.S. steel, slaps tariffs on pork, bourbon

Jun. 5, 2018 at 8:10 pm CDT

Mexico City | Reuters — Mexico responded in kind to U.S. President Donald Trump’s metals tariffs by imposing its own duties on U.S. steel on Tuesday, while also targeting politically sensitive agricultural products from pork to bourbon. Mexico’s peso tumbled to its weakest level since February 2017, leading losses among […]

By Reuters

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