Not all ag sectors in Canada
are thrilled with the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, known as the
Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP 11. Canada’s
dairy and chicken producer groups claim the deal will “chip away” at their
markets. Chicken Farmers of Canada says the agreement still includes
concessions on market access for chicken products in response to U.S. demands.
AgCanada reports Canada granted those concessions in 2016 coming out of
negotiations for the original TPP trade deal, before the U.S. withdrew from the
12-country agreement early last year. With the U.S. out of the partnership, the
group said, “those concessions should have been taken off the table.” A
spokesperson for Chicken Farmers of Canada says the nation has “reached the
limit” of concessions for any future negotiations, referring to the North
American Free Trade Agreement, adding that if the U.S. wants market access to
Canada “they are welcome to rejoin” the TPP 11 agreement. Dairy Farmers of
Canada agreed, calling NAFTA “another vehicle that threatens to weaken the
Canadian dairy industry.”
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