Kanadas „mächtiger“ Milchsektor steht im Fadenkreuz von Trumps Handelspolitik
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8kvm84lxmo
Kanadas „mächtiger“ Milchsektor steht im Fadenkreuz von Trumps Handelspolitik
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8kvm84lxmo
38 Kommentare
Quick, someone jangle some keys by his head
Isn’t there another country they can harass to buy their dairy.
Maybe dairy is the reason he needs diapers at all times and he just has some vendetta against it
I don’t want steroid filled milk from America, they can keep that crap there. They don’t need us he said…he should go sell it to his Russia buddies.
The Americans are hypocrites. They subsidize the shit out of their dairy industry while accusing us of unfair trade protectionism.
Every man who ever took on the dairy cartel lost….
So many people blindly defend supply management. Being the #1 lobby in the country has really paid off for them. They’ve been afforded decades of protection paid by consumers and how has the industry responded over the past few years as Canadians faced unprecedented food inflation? Price hike after price hike after price hike.
I’m tired of it being an issue in every trade relationship we have. I don’t want US dairy and I won’t buy it but surely there’s a way we can protect smaller farmers without this archaic system.
They prop up their dairy with billions in bailout instead of supply management
I would never drink American milk 🤢
U.S. milk full of growth hormones. Hard pass on American dairy.
Remember folks, it’s not just about protecting prices/costs but protecting quality and purity too.
You wouldn’t drink US milk if you knew the sh1t they put in their cows and their milk.
I’d rather never have any dairy products or eggs ever again, than buy American dairy or eggs. Fuck off you orange turd.
We need to phase out this quota system. Ultimately consumers pay the price. On the one hand we talk about affordability, on the other we are pouring milk down the drain. The tariffs make imported cheese way more expensive, with tariffs up to 300%. There would need to be natural consolidation in the industry, but more competition is better.
We need to expand supply management to more agricultural sectors not reduce it.
We see how dependent on the US we are right now economically. We need to at least have proper food security through a strong domestic agricultural industry.
Sadly, I have little trust in Carney and fear he is going to concede this too in exchange for more economic dependence on the US.
It tastes different. It smells different. Has too many additives. Canadian milk for me!
We don’t want American quality milk here. No one is buying milk like they used to. Kids are drinking all the crap liquids
US dairy is pure trash, only a fool would waste their money on it
Screw Trump.
I mean, it’s a Liberal government, that got elected by Quebec, which has a potential third referendum on the horizon, and they’re already dying on the hill of bad policy just because it has some popularity in Quebec.
Between that and people’s reactions to the trade war supply management is hilariously probably the most popular its ever been.
The US isn’t the only trade partner that hates supply management. The EU, UK, Australia, and New Zealand all brought up supply management as a trade irritant.
Honestly this is pretty much the one sector I won’t worry about. It’s bloated, protected by supply management, which means higher prices and less supply in Canada. Dairy farmers are wealthy.
The rest of the new tariffs though have reinforced my boycotting of the U.S.
If you don’t think we can eat all of the cheese you are mistaken
There isn’t a single thing the US admin can do about the Canadian supply system. Why? Because the dairy sector are massive donors and have their own lobbyists, they’re especially powerful in Quebec and Ontario.
They’ll always point out that the US has never even hit their quota.
The only concession that the US will wrangle out of Canada, is another 3-6% access to the market, and only if Canada gets something comparable.
The US admin wants Canada to end supply management, but that would be political suicide. The dairy, poultry, and other industries in Canada employ just as many if not more people then the Automotive sector.
Be nice if the world cashed in on those bonds/debt? Ya know crash the American economy over night after dealing with constant threats from a fat orange pedo and thief.
>Supply management has not been only Trump’s frustration. The previous Biden administration twice challenged Canada’s dairy quota practices under the USMCA, the North American free trade pact at the centre of current talks between the US and Canada.
>In 2024, the UK walked away from trade talks over disagreement on tariff-free access for British cheese producers. It has also been criticised by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which argues it distorts production and trade.
But hey its only Trump its not like it has ever affected any other trade deals
I wish you guys would figure it out. I’m tired of you people fucking up my town for fuel and milk and butter
At a recent trip to the store, I bought New Zealand apples, South African mandarins, Mexican avocados, a Canadian skillet, Canadian dairy, Canadian meat, Canadian grains, Brazilian OJ, and put away anything that marketed itself as a product of the US or from there and packaged here.
They can demand their shit on the shelves, but Canadians can avoid American. Sure, an economy like the US can’t be fully avoided but at the end of the day, fewer Americans will benefit from Trump’s decisions.
Brought you by the country that had a fucking government cheese program because of Dairy market intervention.
If supply management on dairy goes away I think quebec might leave confederation.
Canada’s dairy sector is better than the USA’s system.
Don’t worry, Big Dairy, even if we let it in I won’t buy any of it.
The USA sends fives times (iirc) as much dairy to Canada compared the amount we send to the USA, and the amount they send doesn’t come close to the quotas we all agreed on. How much more American cheese does he think we’ll eat?
Why can’t Canada just use Canada dairy?
Ironically, the US has sugar supply management to protect their domestic sugar industry. Their high tariff rate quotas essentially prevent sugar-producing countries from accessing the US market, and Americans pay a lot for sugar (it’s why we make a lot of candy here in Canada).
So it’s okay when they do it, but they don’t like when anyone does the exact same thing to them.
It’s a non issue. We buy dairy local, even if it’s corporate. The same goes for flour, beef, pork, vegetables.. your get the picture. Living life in the heart of bread & cattle country has its benefits. I see so many Canadians on here on a daily basis, disrespecting their countrymen, and women. No respect for their own backyard. The US has no power over us. We Are Canadian. And we will walk our own path.
Epstein files say what?
Fuck Trump… Though, our dairy board is kinda crazy and is deserving of some scrutiny (by someone sane).
Let’s talk cows.
Canada’s dairy system is not simply a tariff wall designed to keep American milk out. It is a supply-management system designed to keep production roughly aligned with demand, stabilize farm income and preserve a viable network of family-owned farms. Imports are allowed in significant negotiated quantities at low or zero tariffs; the very high tariffs people hear about generally apply only after those agreed import quotas have been filled.
The United States protects its farmers too, often much more extensively, but it uses different mechanisms. American taxpayers support agriculture through crop insurance subsidies, income and price-support programs, disaster payments, commodity programs and direct government payments. Dairy farmers have access to federally supported margin-protection and insurance programs. The U.S. also restricts imports in sensitive sectors. Sugar is an especially obvious example: the United States uses tariff-rate quotas that limit how much foreign sugar can enter at low tariffs, precisely to protect domestic producers and prices. USDA explicitly describes this system.
So there is a real hypocrisy in attacking Canada as a protectionist outlier. Canada essentially says to its dairy farmers: we will control production and imports so you can earn a reasonably predictable income from the market. The United States more often says to its farmers: we will expose you more directly to the market, but protect your income through subsidies, federally supported insurance, price and commodity programs, and, where politically important, import restrictions. In 2026 alone, USDA forecasts federal Dairy Margin Coverage payments, while its broader farm programs continue to provide income, commodity and insurance support.
Both countries protect agriculture. They just write the cheque differently.
And that matters to the family farm. Canada’s system was designed in part to prevent the boom-and-bust cycle in which oversupply collapses milk prices, smaller farmers fail, and increasingly large operations buy them out. Supply management gives a farmer greater certainty that producing milk efficiently can provide a viable living without having to become an enormous industrial-scale operation merely to survive the next price collapse.
That does not make Canada’s system perfect. Quota is expensive and can make it difficult for new farmers to enter. But portraying Canadian dairy protection as some extraordinary trade offence while the United States protects its own farmers with quotas, tariffs, subsidies, insurance and government support is fundamentally misleading.
Canada protects a relatively small number of agricultural sectors openly through supply management. The United States protects agriculture through an enormous, less visible architecture of federal programs and selective trade barriers. Calling one “protectionism” while pretending the other is “free trade” is the hypocrisy.