{"id":5575,"date":"2018-04-16T14:57:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T18:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=b33f03350e8d955e3e18c79975d228de"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:57:02","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T18:57:02","slug":"senior-u-s-legislator-new-nafta-must-lower-canadas-dairy-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/04\/16\/senior-u-s-legislator-new-nafta-must-lower-canadas-dairy-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior U.S. legislator: new NAFTA must lower Canada\u2019s \u2018dairy wall\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &#8212; A senior American lawmaker is pressing for changes that would open up Canada&#8217;s dairy market &#8212; and he wants them in place before his country agrees to any new NAFTA deal.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer has sent a letter on the issue to U.S. trade czar Robert Lighthizer.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer says opening up the dairy market north of the border must be a top priority, and he&#8217;s urging the U.S. team to seize a rare opportunity to lower what he calls Canada&#8217;s dairy wall.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer isn&#8217;t the only leading legislator for whom it is a priority; the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, is from the dairy-producing state of Wisconsin and also considers it a key issue.<\/p>\n<p>Under U.S. law, American trade negotiators must consult with Congress, and will eventually need congressional votes to ratify a new deal.<\/p>\n<p>Some people have suggested the countries could be weeks away from some sort of preliminary agreement on NAFTA, but others warn that serious issues like dairy remain unresolved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON &mdash; A senior American lawmaker is pressing for changes that would open up Canada&rsquo;s dairy market &mdash; and he wants them in place before his country agrees to any new NAFTA deal. Senior Senate Democrat Chuck Schumer has sent a letter on the issue to U.S. trade czar Robert Lighthizer. Schumer says opening up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5575"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5576,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5575\/revisions\/5576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}