The three NAFTA countries are among 34 democracies in the Western Hemisphere that are negotiating a Free Trade Area of the Americas, and each of the three countries has completed or is negotiating free-trade agreements with countries outside NAFTA, said the USDA. The three countries now have a free-trade agreement with Chile, an outcome that the USDA said is similar to what would have resulted had Chile formally joined NAFTA. The NAFTA countries also are seeking meaningful agricultural trade reforms through multilateral negotiations at the World Trade Organization.
The report also examined the effects of the Security and Prosperity Partnership of North America, signed by the leaders of the NAFTA countries in March. The USDA said that through this agreement, the governments of North America have made a commitment to an "even more ambitious agenda of regulatory coordination, featuring common approaches to food safety, greater coordination and information-sharing among testing laboratories, and increased cooperation with respect to the regulation of agricultural biotechnologies."
The USDA said that achieving the objectives of the North American security partnership will require a "high degree of cooperation and coordination among the three governments." The USDA added that the partnership is "likely to serve as a model for similar endeavors in the future."
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Secondly-The United States dictates the rules of any agreement it signs. When things go in their favour the rules are fine. When US producers start to feel as though they are losing something, whether real or not, then the agreement must be renegotiated. The real issue is that the US has too great of a hand in framing international trade rules, which it uses to ensure that its own producers are somehow insulated from the tough realities that it recommends for others. It is in the end it is a commitment to getting other countries to give American producers access to their markets and the US reciprocates when it is convenient. This is due to a lack of checks and balances that other countries in the world have to entice them to keep an even keel on their trade agreements. How do we do this, by doing more trade with other nations and less trade with the United States of America. It seems to me that the United States of America is trying to control all the trade in North and South America with everyone else paying the tab!<br />
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Let’s not forget Canada’s cattle industry?<br />
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American speculators buying Manitoba beef<br />
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U.S. producers buying cheap Canadian cattle<br />
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How about the Canadian Lumber Industry?<br />
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A recent released Credit Suisse First Boston report noting continued U.S. losses at trade panels. The U.S. Department of Commerce "understands that the laws and treaties make it impossible for Canada to `win' in the real world, even if they win every time in court. It takes years to get through the courts, and by the time you do, the tariffs, duties and quotas the U.S. has imposed have completely wrecked the targeted industry in Canada. So who cares what the courts say." <br />
Obviously, the BSE in cattle is a manmade illness, found in sheep and deers. It is transmitted to cattle when the carcasses of dead animals are ground up and fed to cattle, mostly in the feedlots. A criminal procedure, regardless by who, where and what country it is done. My animals only eat grass, but my cattle are just as worthless as if I'd feed them dead meat. On the other hand, my American rancher friends tell me that there must be 100,000 BSE infected cattle in the States, but the ranchers and feedlots are getting rid of them when they have the slightest suspicion, without informing any authorities. Various governments are also doing their best to cover up the evidence.
I've been fighting against this colonizing fraud, called free trade, for almost 20 years and all the bad things and horrors we have predicted have come true. The claim that certain exports have doubled under NAFTA means absolutely nothing, as most of that so called trade is between various branches of major multinationals and the Canadian public receives no benefits. Our living standards have gone down and the cost of living gone up for 30 years, yet our braindead politicians still can't smell the rot. In India thousands of farmers have already committed suicide on account of this "open market" crime wave and it looks as if our own governments are doing their best to bring the same conditons to Canada. Ed Deak, Big lake, BC.
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"George Bush has declared the war on terrorism to be the cause of his generation. The cause of Canadian sovereignty will be ours." - John Godfrey, MP for Don Va
I believe in well organized, well protected and enforced road systems, where people can drive in peace, knowing that their lives and properties are protected by neutrally enforced laws. All economies should also work that way. It would save a lot of trouble, crimes, illness, family breakdowns and substance abuse. All these are well documented.
As far the family farm system is concerned, it is the most efficient way of food production on Earth, but it is being distorted and destroyed by criminal economic theories.
By the way, I was told of 100,000 BSE cattle in the States, but have to admit the number must be way out. I would, however, estimate a few thousand. Ed Deak, Big Lake, BC.