Insights and Stories on Concessions

Deere’s U.S. workers on strike after rejecting deal

Oct. 14, 2021 at 4:45 pm CDT

Reuters — Thousands of Deere and Co. workers began a strike on Thursday, the United Auto Workers (UAW) said, days after overwhelmingly rejecting a six-year labour contract that was agreed on with the tractor maker. Earlier this month, the world’s largest farm equipment maker and the UAW union reached an […]

India considers changing new farm laws after mass protests

Dec. 4, 2020 at 7:58 pm CST

By Mayank Bhardwaj

India offers U.S. dairy, chicken access in bid for elusive trade deal

Feb. 14, 2020 at 1:22 am CST

By Aditya Kalra David Lawder Neha Dasgupta Sanjeev Miglani

Trump calls off tariffs after Mexico vows to tighten borders

Jun. 8, 2019 at 9:20 am CDT

By Diego Ore Roberta Rampton

USMCA costs Canada sovereignty in ag policy, critics warn

Nov. 30, 2018 at 2:55 pm CST

By GFM Staff

Dairy farmers unhappy after meeting Trudeau on USMCA

Oct. 4, 2018 at 4:16 pm CDT

Ottawa | Reuters — Canadian dairy farmers met Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Thursday to discuss his politically-risky move to open up the protected domestic market to U.S. industry but complained he had not given them details about compensation. As part of the talks to complete the new United States-Mexico-Canada […]

By David Ljunggren

Trudeau urges some U.S. flexibility in NAFTA talks

Sep. 19, 2018 at 3:15 pm CDT

Washington/Ottawa | Reuters — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Wednesday he wanted to see flexibility from the U.S. if the two sides are to reach a deal on renewing NAFTA, which Washington insists must be finished by the end of the month. Ottawa is pushing back against increasing […]

By David Lawder David Ljunggren

U.S. to move ahead with Mexico pact, keep talking to Canada

Aug. 31, 2018 at 4:50 pm CDT

Washington/Toronto | Reuters — Contentious U.S.-Canada trade talks ended on Friday with no deal to revamp the North American Free Trade Agreement after the mood soured, and President Donald Trump notified Congress of his intent to sign a bilateral trade pact with Mexico. U.S. and Canadian trade officials set plans […]

By Allison Martell Julie Gordon Sharay Angulo

Fear, frustration on dairy farms as trade concessions sought

Aug. 30, 2018 at 9:57 pm CDT

Winnipeg/Montreal | Reuters — Marie-Pier Vincent, a fourth-generation Quebec dairy farmer, worries it will be even harder to make ends meet if Canada allows more tariff-free imports of milk products from the U.S. under a reworked North American Free Trade Agreement. Vincent, 28, is already looking for a second job […]

By Allison Lampert Rod Nickel

Syngenta sees no sale of ChemChina’s Adama to smooth merger

Jan. 17, 2017 at 6:11 pm CST

Davos, Switzerland | Reuters –– Syngenta, the Swiss pesticides and seeds group being taken over by ChemChina, does not expect antitrust regulators to force the Chinese state-owned company to put its subsidiary Adama up for sale, Syngenta’s CEO said on Tuesday. “Adama will not need to be sold. There will […]

By Martinne Geller

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