How Baby Formula May End Up As Collateral Damage In Trump’s NAFTA War

[j-mac]

As predicted in 2018, Trump's NAFTA war resulted in a baby formula shortage.

Do you tards think the reporter went back in time and wrote that article?

No, just you grasping at straws.

 

[The Original Tree]

June 15, 2018:

Jennifer Wells: How baby formula may end up as collateral damage in Trump’s NAFTA war

Favourable pricing of Canada’s skim milk powder puts a new infant formula factory in Kingston in the cross-hairs of NAFTA foes in the U.S., writes Jennifer Wells.

www.thestar.com

Furious American dairy farmers see the capital investment as yet another example of Canadian dairy farmers taking advantage of an unfair pricing system. Specifically, the Class 7 pricing program which came into effect last year and which, as I have previously written, introduced a favourable pricing category covering such skim milk components as skim milk powder. Butter lovers might define these as the leftovers.

Democratic Senator Chuck Schumer has been on the warpath about this since Class 7 came into effect, noting that Canadian exports of skim milk powder, rich in protein and ideal for baby formula, more than tripled in the first year of its existence, while dairy farmers in Cayuga County saw the export potential for their skim milk powders, to Canada and Mexico, shrink dramatically.

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The conditions, as there are now, are set for success.

That’s bound to change if Donald Trump decides to focus on Class 7 as a winnable concession in the NAFTA wars.


4 months later:

Class 7 Pricing Scheme in New NAFTA Deal

Trump administration officials said the USMCA eliminates Canada’s “Class 7” pricing system for milk ingredients and opens the Canadian dairy market to U.S. exports at an additional 3.59 percent (an increase from the 3.25% that was negotiated by the Obama administration under the Trans-Pacific Partnership).

Increased access to Canadian markets for dairy products was a major point of contention in trade talks, as was the termination of Class 7 pricing. The program saturated the international market with subsidized skim milk powder and cut the demand from Canadian cheesemakers for ultra-filtered milk from the U.S. USMCA will include the development of new safeguards to prevent major export increases for certain dairy products.

LOL, how does Joe Xiden shutting down an American Formula Factory and then restricting imports through their dumb ass supply chain policies and restrictions affect Formula from Mexico because of NAFTA?

Thanks for more Propaganda Bullshit from the Dirty Diaper Worshippers of EmperorShitzHizPantz and The Ministry of Truth.

 

[Big Bend Texas]

It sounds to me like if the FDA is more worried about shaking down manufacturers than providing a reliable stream of safe baby formula. I guess they think every company is like Pfizer. Trump would have addressed this problem much quicker.

After more than two months they never could find a source for the supposed offending bacteria that was sickening kids.

They should have been back in production in a week and if they had, none of this would be an issue today.

 

[DudleySmith]

There are only 4 companies producing it; Abbot has 42% of the market, another company has 40% or so, and two companies split the the rest. There is no competition out there that is going to race in and grab shelf space, so nobody in the business gives a crap, they can just raise prices to make up for any production losses.

 

[The Original Tree]

After more than two months they never could find a source for the supposed offending bacteria that was sickening kids.

They should have been back in production in a week and if they had, none of this would be an issue today.

False Flag attack in my opinion. We have supply chain issues, inflation issues, food shortages, part shortages, and gas price increases as the result of intentional actions by The Biden Regime.