{"id":125362,"date":"2024-12-10T11:31:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-10T17:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.opportimes.com\/?p=125362"},"modified":"2024-12-10T11:31:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T17:31:28","slug":"usmca-benefits-large-cheese-producers-iccc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.opportimes.com\/usmca-benefits-large-cheese-producers-iccc\/","title":{"rendered":"USMCA benefits large cheese producers: ICCC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Treaty between Mexico, the United States and Canada (USMCA) benefits large cheese producers and puts small and medium-sized companies (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.opportimes.com\/opportunities-in-e-commerce-markets-smes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>SMEs<\/strong><\/a>) at a disadvantage, highlighted the International Cheese Council of Canada (ICCC).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On an upward trend, Canadian cheese imports (including cottage cheese) were $475 million in 2023, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statcan.gc.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Statistics Canada<\/strong><\/a> data.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Canada decided to allocate quotas based on domestic and imported cheese sales. According to ICCC, this move has resulted in a disproportionate allocation of quotas to large Canadian dairy processors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These processors are highly profitable and are protected by local policies. As a result, they have no real incentive to import value-added cheeses. This especially affects U.S. dairy exporters.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Large cheese producers<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Canadian cheese imports increased from $292 million in 2018 to $475 million in 2023.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The trend, in millions of dollars, is shown below:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>2018<\/strong>: 292.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>2019<\/strong>: 311.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>2020<\/strong>: 341.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>2021<\/strong>: 402.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>2022<\/strong>: 435.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>2023<\/strong>: 475.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Production in Canada<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under the USMCA, which came into force on July 1, 2020, Canada agreed to provide additional dairy market access to its largest trading partner, the <strong>United States<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite that, the Canadian government&#8217;s quota management practices have stifled market access. Failure to deliver on promised meaningful market access to the United States has been detrimental to Canadian small and medium-sized businesses involved in the cheese import sector.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Canada&#8217;s domestic cheese production is around 530 million kilograms per year, while access for imported cheeses is just over 60 million kilograms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, <strong>Canada<\/strong> relies on the sum of the two to calculate allocations, which clearly favors companies that produce and sell astronomically large quantities of domestic cheeses in the Canadian market.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This creates an unequal system that does not benefit Canadian SMEs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Therefore, the ICCC urged Canada to use the 2026 USMCA Review to work with its trading partners to adopt a TRQ allocation mechanism based on the actual performance of importers, i.e. using the ratio of import purchases, rather than sales.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The following were the top sterling suppliers of cheese to Canada, in millions of dollars:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>United States<\/strong>: 117.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Italy<\/strong>: 104.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>France<\/strong>: 58.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Switzerland<\/strong>: 29.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Netherlands<\/strong>: 26.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Treaty between Mexico, the United States and Canada (USMCA) benefits large cheese producers and puts small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) at a disadvantage, highlighted the International Cheese Council of Canada (ICCC). On an upward trend, Canadian cheese imports (including cottage cheese) were $475 million in 2023, according to Statistics Canada data. 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