U.S. government confirms duties on Canadian swine

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http://www.cbc.ca/story/business/national/2005/03/07/pork-050307.html

WASHINGTON - The U.S. government has confirmed preliminary anti-dumping duties it imposed on imports of live Canadian pigs and hogs last October.

The U.S. Department of Commerce said its preliminary investigation found that Canadian swine were being sold at less than their fair value ("dumped") in the U.S. market. A subsequent look at the issue has confirmed that finding.

It has imposed anti-dumping duties of 12.68 per cent for Ontario pork, 18.87 per cent for Premium Pork, 0.53 per cent for Hytek Pork, 4.64 per cent for Excel pork, and 10.63 per cent for all other kinds of pork. The "all other rate" applies to all producers not in the four specific exporters chosen for a detailed examination.

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No more Freedom Bacon for you!

Sid

[firefox]

1. They banned Canadian beef

The reason beef is so high is because they cut off Canadian beef. The ban was supposed to be lifted but recently that hope was killed and plenty of Canadians say it is because Canada was negative on paying for a missile defence system that does not work. Maybe the beef people just got lucky and will have to endure all those hyperprofits.

Just because the government says something does not mean it is true. I mean maybe the US price for pork is just too high. Either way the US government is totally corrupt and has lost all credibility.

[John Q. Citizen]

2. Is any beef safe to consume? i don't know.

I figure Canadian beef is just as safe as American beef, though.


Like the guy in Napolean Dynamite says to his freeloading uncle,

"Grandma says you have to go. You ate all the steak."

I bet bush is just using this stuff as a distraction from his big budget cuts proposed in US farm staes. It's the kind of us agaist them thing he likes, at least on the beef.

I don't know a thing about the pork in terms of justice under NAFTA.

[applegrove]

3. Bush does nothing to stop his own industries from being aggressive

and ignoring trade rules. He allows phony anti-dumping tariffs and then he gives the tariffs to the industries (just so long as nothing is left in the coffers of the US Treasury - to bankrupt your government and make it too powerless to regulate corporations effectively). we are terribly impressed with the lot in the WH

We have no been sold on MD. Why if all the missiles are going to be shot down over the Arctic (killing 0, or 8,000 or 40,000 innu or dene or Inuit) why the hell would we pay for that. Perhaps we want to have the right to let the people sue for their losses and the clean up from someone other than the Canadian Government... like USA government or the Arms Industry.

Bush is saying: "sign here and it won't cost you a cent". Yeah - right! Perhaps USA manufacturers want to be a little bit more careful about where the fucking missile gets blown up at 80,000 feet. And we will have no say where the missile get shot down if we sit at the table. We have more say by not joining and leaving the door open to law suits directed at USA.

What is a country supposed to do. Protect its people - right!!!

IMHO Not joining is a no - brainer. Our corporate heads (often American and banded with American corporate heads by golf) see fewer contracts for the military companies in Canada. Chances are that USA will not be nearly as rich as it has been in the next 50 years so we will not see much anyway. And why when the whole world is 'outsourcing' goods - wouldn't we want to buy our equipment from real competitive army suppliers in Russia or elsewhere and really cheap prices.

Of course it helps that the majority of Canadians are quite frightened by Bush & his cabal. And our patsy editorialists actually wrote propaganda articles that started with headlines such as: US PRESIDENT DOES NOT RETURN PM's CALL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN WE DON'T KNOW HOW LONG.

We do know how long. The US President didn't return the calls of our last Prime Minister two years ago.