US pork farmers have asked Washington to erect 20% punitive countervailing and anti-dumping duties on Canadian pork imports to the US, claiming that Canada’s national and provincial aid packages keep pork prices artificially low.
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The United States National Pork Producers Council has alleged that Canadian pork is undermining American market prices and has also accused Canadian producers of dumping live pigs at cut-rate prices in the US.
That said, Canadian pigs make up a relatively small portion of the American pork market. Last year, roughly 7.4 million live pigs were exported from Canada to the US, while nearly 100 million US-bred pigs were slaughtered.
