The National Pork Producers Association in the United States is pleading for Canada to drop plans to impose retaliatory pork tariffs.
“The tit-for-tat tariff exchanges will disrupt supply chains that have been built up over decades. We request that Canada seeks to preserve the benefits of the integrated North American market to the maximum extent practicable, including by excluding U.S. pork imports from retaliation,” said Maria Zieba, the council’s vice-president for government affairs. It was in a letter to Canadian government officials.
“As of this writing, goods originating in North America, including Canadian pork, are exempt from tariffs. While we cannot predict what will happen in the future, NPPC supports continued duty-free trade in both directions,” she wrote.
“A trade war will leave the North American pork sector weaker and more fragmented. While we understand the impulse to impose tariffs on U.S. goods in response to unjustified U.S. tariffs, such duties likely would rupture the integrated supply chain that has been so beneficial to our two countries, especially since the creation of NAFTA,” she wrote.
So, her advice to Canadians is to sit there and take it. No way!
