Vilsack said the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Trade Representative’s office are weighing next steps in the long-running dispute over Canada’s largely closed dairy market, but declined to say whether they would bring new challenges under the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement on Trade (USMCA).
“What I can tell you is that we’re going to continue to look for creative ways to promote and sell dairy products in Canada, and to basically get our fair share of the market up there – as the Canadians promised,” Vilsack said during a meeting with Reuters reporters and editors in Washington.
He did not identify specific steps, but said USDA and USTR would work to persuade Canada to provide market opportunities “in the same way they’re going to basically articulate the need for more openness to some of our markets. That advocacy is going to continue.”
