Adjunct Professor Matt Gold was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article about the U.S.-Canada trade feud over the international dairy market.
Canada has internally debated the merits of its own supply management program for years. It made concessions to open up its dairy market in other recently negotiated trade pacts. Most notably, in the Trans-Pacific Partnership deal involving Pacific Rim countries, Canada agreed to increase foreign access to its market in the amount of 3.25% of its annual milk production.
Mr. Trump, however, pulled the U.S. out of that deal, irking Canadians. “They got their backs up,” said Matt Gold, a former deputy assistant U.S. Trade Representative for North America under President Barack Obama. “A problem that had been solving itself instantly became unsolvable.”