Insights and Stories on TPP

Japan trade deal aims to put U.S. farmers on par with TPP

Oct. 8, 2019 at 4:34 am CDT

Washington | Reuters — The new U.S.-Japan trade deal will provide staged reduction of Japanese tariffs for more than US$2 billion worth of U.S. beef and pork, matching access now granted to the 11 Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact countries, a text of the agreement shows. U.S. President Donald Trump presided […]

Japan set to grant TPP-level access for U.S. beef, pork

Aug. 24, 2019 at 3:08 am CDT

By David Lawder Kaori Kaneko

Canadian dairies get significant control over imports under TPP

Nov. 27, 2018 at 4:21 pm CST

U.S. to take another look at Pacific trade pact

Apr. 12, 2018 at 11:49 pm CDT

By Reuters

Asia-Pacific nations sign sweeping trade deal without U.S.

Mar. 8, 2018 at 4:50 pm CST

By Dave Sherwood Felipe Iturrieta

Dairy farmers get no assurances on NAFTA

Feb. 9, 2018 at 11:21 pm CST

Dairy farmers are seeking assurances there would be no more access to Canada’s dairy market in a renegotiated North American Free Trade Agreement — but Lawrence MacAulay, Canada’s minister of agriculture and agri-food, would not provide them. “Because of the NAFTA negotiations going on, we have to be careful what […]

By John Greig

U.S. anti-trade agenda could benefit Canadian ag

Jan. 25, 2018 at 6:25 pm CST

Winnipeg | CNS Canada — As U.S. President Donald Trump follows his “America first” policy and pulls out of trade deals, it could spell future opportunity for the Canadian agricultural industry, according to Dermot Hayes, a professor with the department of economics at Iowa State University. “In D.C. it’s chaotic. […]

By Ashley Robinson - MarketsFarm

Chicken, dairy farmers rip TPP concessions

Jan. 24, 2018 at 8:14 pm CST

Updated, Jan. 25, 2018 — Canada’s supply-managed producer groups warn that the new Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) trade deal stands to chip away unnecessarily at their markets. Chicken Farmers of Canada on Wednesday said the CPTPP deal, on which Canada pledged Tuesday it will sign in March, still […]

By Staff

Canada in on TPP pact, to be signed in March

Jan. 23, 2018 at 10:58 am CST

Tokyo | Reuters — Eleven countries aiming to forge a Asia-Pacific trade pact after the U.S. pulled out of an earlier version will sign an agreement in Chile in March, Japan’s economy minister said on Tuesday. Trade officials had been meeting in Tokyo to resolve rifts including Canada’s insistence on […]

By Kaori Kaneko Takashi Umekawa

Officials aim to forge ahead with TPP as Canada wavers

Jan. 22, 2018 at 1:45 am CST

Tokyo | Reuters — As trade officials gather in Tokyo this week to try and forge ahead with a trade pact that U.S. President Donald Trump abandoned last year, the new 11-member club risks getting bogged down by resistance from Canada. The member countries of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement […]