Posted by Determined on December 20, 2015 at 08:38:38 from (216.130.212.38):
In Reply to: COOL SCRAPPED posted by Determined on December 19, 2015 at 19:29:55:
In response to John in La
"So maybe you can explain to me how putting this label on a box is hurting you or how it does not live up to NAFTA".
Putting a label on a box coming from this side of the border is not the cause of the issue.
The problem was US self inflicted by lack of thinking through the process and what it would cost to implement.
For a US processing plant to meet the requirements of your own rules, meat from another country has to be kept separate during processing then labeled before going out for distribution.
Lets say you run a plant that processes 1500 head of cattle a day, from slaughtering to cooling to cutting this takes several days.
So obviously if you have to shut down do a plant clean up then do a separate production cycle for a run of imported beef you have added costs and your bottom line is affected.
Unless you can purchase this imported beef at a huge discount it does not make economic sense to bother with.
As a result you quit processing imported beef of if you continue you have to purchase at a discount to cover your additional costs.
This is how cool affects the price paid for Canadian cattle.
I am all for knowing where things come from but making a rule that applies to everything has its draw backs.
If you don't want to buy beef from Canada, shrimp from Asia or dog food from China that is fine but a better system to identify a product that does not cause what amounts to the equivalent of an import tariff needs to be developed.
We would gladly brand cattle with Proudly Raised in Canada, but the way I see it the additional costs that are hindering trade are coming from the USA side of the table.
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