Charlie;
I see this from the North Dakota Wheat Commission;
"Following a Wheat Commission meeting yesterday, Chairman Harlan Klein declared, "The North Dakota Wheat Commission will closely monitor any sales of Canadian durum to the U.S. market. If the Canadian Wheat Board again abuses its access to our market and import levels climb dramatically at unfairly low prices, U.S. durum farmers will have no choice but to lodge another anti-dumping and countervailing duty case, or even an antitrust suit."
"The CWB's rank as the world's largest single seller of grain is due, not to its market acumen, but only to Canadian government policy giving it exclusive control over the purchase and sale of all wheat grown in western Canada," stresses Durum Growers President Ed Loraas. "U.S. farmers will not tolerate shenanigans by this state trading enterprise in what is supposed to be a free market economy."
Klein concurs, "There's something philosophically wrong about American farmers having to compete against a monopoly of the Canadian government." Some of his strong sentiments stem from his experiences as chair of a producer-owned, grain elevator cooperative where farmers participate by choice, not government mandate."
I find it difficult to argue with the body of the North Dakota complaint.
How can CWB "commercial" trading status be maintained... when the CWB has no competition, and operates strictly using the pooling accounts to backstop all domestic and international sales... instead of contractual based sales?
In essence the CWB uses the pooling accounts to allow the CWB sales department to undercut any other entity on the face of this plant... without a trace of accountability... at the direct expence of every farmer in the "designated area" of western Canada.
THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT allows this action... even though this action is not mandatedor legislated by the CWB Act.
If the price inside Canada and outside Canada is in fact the same... as the CWB claims is the case... and says it is obligated under NAFTA/WTO to maintain... therefore there can be no pecuniary benifit enuring to an "designated area" applicant applying for a CWB export licence.
The CWB required extraction of a tax to be added to the CWB pool proves the point of the North Dakota folks.
If the CWB were in fact "commercial" the CWB monopoly would not be required to "taxback" (the buyback as the CWB calls it) farmers who were exporting at a higher price than the is selling at.
This fatal flaw is obvious to every other country on the face of this planet... why exactly cannot "designated area" farmers understand the misrepresentation being promoted by the CWB?
Folks, what have I missed here?
I see this from the North Dakota Wheat Commission;
"Following a Wheat Commission meeting yesterday, Chairman Harlan Klein declared, "The North Dakota Wheat Commission will closely monitor any sales of Canadian durum to the U.S. market. If the Canadian Wheat Board again abuses its access to our market and import levels climb dramatically at unfairly low prices, U.S. durum farmers will have no choice but to lodge another anti-dumping and countervailing duty case, or even an antitrust suit."
"The CWB's rank as the world's largest single seller of grain is due, not to its market acumen, but only to Canadian government policy giving it exclusive control over the purchase and sale of all wheat grown in western Canada," stresses Durum Growers President Ed Loraas. "U.S. farmers will not tolerate shenanigans by this state trading enterprise in what is supposed to be a free market economy."
Klein concurs, "There's something philosophically wrong about American farmers having to compete against a monopoly of the Canadian government." Some of his strong sentiments stem from his experiences as chair of a producer-owned, grain elevator cooperative where farmers participate by choice, not government mandate."
I find it difficult to argue with the body of the North Dakota complaint.
How can CWB "commercial" trading status be maintained... when the CWB has no competition, and operates strictly using the pooling accounts to backstop all domestic and international sales... instead of contractual based sales?
In essence the CWB uses the pooling accounts to allow the CWB sales department to undercut any other entity on the face of this plant... without a trace of accountability... at the direct expence of every farmer in the "designated area" of western Canada.
THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT allows this action... even though this action is not mandatedor legislated by the CWB Act.
If the price inside Canada and outside Canada is in fact the same... as the CWB claims is the case... and says it is obligated under NAFTA/WTO to maintain... therefore there can be no pecuniary benifit enuring to an "designated area" applicant applying for a CWB export licence.
The CWB required extraction of a tax to be added to the CWB pool proves the point of the North Dakota folks.
If the CWB were in fact "commercial" the CWB monopoly would not be required to "taxback" (the buyback as the CWB calls it) farmers who were exporting at a higher price than the is selling at.
This fatal flaw is obvious to every other country on the face of this planet... why exactly cannot "designated area" farmers understand the misrepresentation being promoted by the CWB?
Folks, what have I missed here?
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