[title size=”1″ content_align=”left” style_type=”underline solid” sep_color=”#000000″ margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” class=”” id=””]Obama administration pushing for TPP completion before 2016 elections[/title][fullwidth background_color=”” background_image=”” background_parallax=”none” enable_mobile=”no” parallax_speed=”0.3″ background_repeat=”no-repeat” background_position=”left top” video_url=”” video_aspect_ratio=”16:9″ video_webm=”” video_mp4=”” video_ogv=”” video_preview_image=”” overlay_color=”” overlay_opacity=”0.5″ video_mute=”yes” video_loop=”yes” fade=”no” border_size=”0px” border_color=”” border_style=”” padding_top=”20″ padding_bottom=”20″ padding_left=”0″ padding_right=”0″ hundred_percent=”no” equal_height_columns=”no” hide_on_mobile=”no” menu_anchor=”” class=”” id=””][fusion_text]Monday, July 27th 2015
The Obama administration is under pressure to wrap up the Trans-Pacific Partnership so it can be submitted to Congress in time to keep it from getting entangled in the 2016 presidential campaign. But heading into this week’s round of the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks in Maui, there has been no sign of progress with Canada on reducing its barriers to dairy and poultry products. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told reporters last week that there were “very significant issues involving a number of countries” heading into this week’s round and that “Canada is certainly one of them.” Canadians have been arguing that there’s no reason to reduce their supply controls for dairy and poultry products when the United States continues to protect its sugar producers in the same way. The Australian Sugar Industry Alliance, with backing from the Texas-based Imperial Sugar Co., is pushing for last-minute concessions from the United States on its import quotas. Imperial, a subsidiary of Louis Dreyfus Commodities, argues that allowing more sugar imports would save American jobs. American sugar producers have been urging U.S. negotiators to resist Australia’s demands.
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