Ok, i can’t keep up with the AI generated response but lets start with #1 and we’ll see how that goes.
There is no restriction on US dairy per se. What there is is a quota system enacted to prevent US dumping of milk into Canada. If those quotas were to be exceeded the duty is 250% on the amount exceeded.
To date, that quota is so very high that it has never even come close to being reached and has never needed to be applied.
Look it up. Verify what I say.
The rationele for the quota was this was needed to protect small mom and pop farmers, mainly in Quebec, from being pushed out by US industrial-scale providers.
Its just a talking point for your trade secretary nutlicker and the fudge packer treasury secretary to try to convince their domestic audience that Canada is “ripping us off”.
Nobody is ripping you off. In fact, very few in Canada are buying US product. Not because its superior or inferior, but because the US president renegged on a deal he signed himeself.
This is uneducated drivel. The reason that the tariff has never needed to be applied is not because the limits are so high, it's because the tariffs are so high. We can't afford to risk breaching that level. The milk plant that my wife works at used to send multiple loads of Ultra filtered milk protein concentrate into Canada every week. I think it was about 2 loads a day average. For reference an 80,000 pound load of this product takes 400,000 pounds of milk to produce. That's not a typo 400,000 pounds of milk for each load. When the high tariff on dairy was implemented it immediately dropped to a load or two a week and now almost none because it would be too costly to make it feasible to send it there. That tariff being in place absolutely cut the amount of dairy entering Canada from the US.
