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Industry Viewpoint Continued<br />
Only the Brazilian state of Matto Grosso (MT) has significantly<br />
lower costs than Canada, while the average production cost in<br />
the EU countries surveyed is 44% above Canada’s. The EU’s<br />
cost regime is very different to Canada’s, with higher feed,<br />
labour and fixed costs, while Brazil has significantly lower<br />
labour, other direct costs and fixed costs, but higher feed costs.<br />
“Canada has significantly lower breeding<br />
herd performance than countries such as<br />
Denmark, France and the Netherlands”<br />
The InterPig production data shows that Canada has<br />
significantly lower breeding herd performance than countries<br />
such as Denmark, France and the Netherlands. Despite a<br />
relatively high carcass weight in Canada, this results in a low<br />
figure for the amount of carcass weight produced per sow.<br />
Many European countries have capitalized more effectively<br />
on high litter size genetics, with Danish producers selling<br />
26.3 pigs per sow and those in the Netherlands 26.5. It<br />
should be noted that the Canadian data set is very limited and<br />
contains a number of anomalies, especially in the physical<br />
performance data.<br />
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16 | Western Hog Journal | Winter 2012<br />
WTO rules in favour of Canada on<br />
COOL complaint<br />
The World Trade Organization (WTO) ruled in favour of<br />
Canada and Mexico in a complaint against the US mandatory<br />
country of origin labelling (COOL) law, which took effect<br />
in 2008. Following the law’s implementation, US imports<br />
of Canadian cattle and hogs and Mexican cattle declined<br />
substantially.<br />
The panel found that the COOL program is a technical<br />
regulation that is “inconsistent with the United States’ WTO<br />
obligations,” since it accords less favourable treatment to<br />
imported Canadian cattle and hogs than to like domestic<br />
products. Further, the panel found that COOL does not<br />
fulfill its legitimate objective of providing consumers with<br />
information on origin. Both factors constitute violations of<br />
WTO rules.<br />
“The United States will almost certainly appeal the decision,<br />
but most observers believe the result will not change, thus<br />
paving the way for Canada, Mexico and, possibly, other<br />
countries to place punitive tariffs on US goods,” comments<br />
American economist Steve Meyer. “The United States will<br />
have a year after the appeal ruling is received to make<br />
changes to the law to avoid the retaliatory tariffs.”<br />
CONTINUED ON PAGE 18<br />
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