Canada doubles dairy tariffs ahead of Trump talks
Trump often rails against Canada’s prohibitively high dairy tariffs. He’s about to get angrier. That’s because last week, the Canadian Senate passed new legislation, years in the making, which bars the government from negotiating away its dairy protectionism in future trade agreements. The bill’s timing was no accident. Canada wants a carve-out from Trump’s tariffs and hopes to […]
Trump promises immigration order soon on Dairy and farm workers
U.S. President Donald Trump said he would issue an order soon to address the effects of his immigration crackdown on the country’s farm and hotel industries, which rely heavily on migrant labor. “Our farmers are being hurt badly and we’re going to have to do something about that… We’re going to have an order on […]
Trump’s tariffs to make Amul “preferred supplier of choice”
Amul which annually exports ₹1,000 crore worth dairy products across the globe, is rubbing its hands in glee. Though the imposition of retaliatory tariffs on India and other countries by the Trump administration is expected to make Amul products being sold in the United States expensive, Jayen Mehta, Managing Director of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) […]
Dairy of an Agro phile ? How now, holy cow ?
US President Donald Trump unveiled a laundry list of his administration’s grievances about “Tariff King” New Delhi’s “trade barriers,” but few gripes were more tone deaf than ones against India’s agriculture and dairy sector, the life blood of rural India that employs nearly 50 per cent of the country’s workforce. In a 400-page report on foreign trade […]
How milk is getting caught in the middle of Trump’s policy agenda
President Donald Trump’s moves in Washington are being felt in the milking barns of an upstate New York dairy farm. There, AJ Wormuth said he’s already seeing costs go up from Trump’s tariffs while the threat of a wider trade war is driving down the price he gets paid for his cows’ milk. “We’re getting a double […]
What Trump doesn’t mention about Canada’s dairy tariffs.
President Donald Trump correctly noted Friday, as he has before, that Canada has tariffs above 200% on dairy products imported from the US. But Trump again failed to mention a critical fact. Those high tariffs kick in only after the US has hit a certain Trump-negotiated quantity of tariff-free dairy sales to Canada each year – and as the US dairy industry acknowledges, the […]
Trump says dairy, lumber tariffs on Canada may come soon
U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday (March 7, 2025) that he could impose reciprocal tariffs on Canadian dairy and lumber within days — a move set to fuel tensions with Ottawa just days after an earlier wave of levies. Since taking office in January, Mr. Trump has unleashed a series of tariffs and threats targeting […]
India-US Trade Talks: Duty relaxations in IT, dairy?
India-US Trade Talks: Sources also told ET NOW that India could push for duty relaxation on Kasturi Cotton-based textile exports to the US. In addition to this, semiconductor collaboration is also on the agenda as India builds its chip manufacturing ecosystem. India is also learnt to open the defence sector for US firms, strengthening bilateral […]
IDFA Shares U.S. Dairy’s Priorities With Trump
The International Dairy Foods Association (IDFA) is sharing a comprehensive set of federal policy priorities that have been sent to President-Elect Trump’s transition team. IDFA President and CEO Michael Dykes, D.V.M., said IDFA and its more than 300 members are looking to the new administration to help U.S. dairy drive innovation, reduce barriers to business […]