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Japan trade mission could benefit local farmers GREGGCHAMBERLAIN gregg.chamberlain@eap.on.ca “Canada was the first country to re-open our borders to Japanese imports,”Lemieux said,“and we did it on sound science.”
has high value in the country’s domestic market. Canada’s goal, Lemieux noted, is to compete for more of the beef, pork and other agriculture import share of the Japanese market that U.S. and Australian producers occupy. Those two countries between them have 60 per cent of the Japanese food import market. Getting Japan to lower its tariff on Canadian agriculture imports would provide long-term benefits to local farmers, ranchers, and pork producers in the MP’s own riding who supply slaughterhouses and produce companies with meat and vegetables for export. “The larger the marketplace, the better it is for our farmers,” Lemieux said, noting that reduc- ing the tariff could boost Canadian agriculture exports to Japan by 65 per cent, representing a potential $7.5 billion in trade revenue. The MP also noted that since Japan has no interest in exporting dairy products, eggs, or chickens to Canada, there is no threat to local egg and dairy farmers who depend on Canada’s supply-management program for their home marketplace protection. As part of his time in Japan, Lemieux also toured parts of the northern island which suf- fered from last year’s tsunami that devastated
much of the existing farmland and communi- ties and also damaged one of the country’s nuclear power reactors. The MP noted that one argument that weighed in Canada’s favour for a better trade agreement was Ottawa’s support in helping Japan rebuild its economy after many of its exports faced trade barriers around the world because of fear of radiation contamination.
The MP observed that he and other trade mis- sion delegates have asked their Japanese coun- terparts to use the same “sound science” rule in their review of Japan’s tariff wall against Cana- dian agriculture imports.
Ottawa | Glengarry-Prescott-Russell MP Pierre Lemieux avoided some of the foul weather in Eastern Ontario thanks to a trade mission as- signment to Japan. He expects that future re- sults from the trip will prove a boon for local farmers. Lemieux joined the Canadian trade delegation in his role as parliamentary assistant to federal Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz. The trade mis- sion was a follow-up to Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s visit in March to Japan to confirm and announce a possible Economic Partnership Agreement with that country. “It was a very successful trip,” Lemieux said during a phone interview following his return. “This will benefit our agricultural sector.” Lemieux met with his counterpart, Hiroko Na- kano, parliamentary secretary to Japan’s agricul- ture minister, and with Katsuyuki Ishida, a senior vice-minister for the naikaku, the 15-member cabinet that includes Japan’s prime minister and his ministers of state. Besides discussions on Ca- nadian seafood imports, one of the main points of Lemieux’s discussion with Nakano, Ishida and other government officials was the current 17- per cent tariff that Japan levies on Canadian ag- ricultural imports. Lemieux noted that while Japan wants to protect its own agriculture sector the type of produce and meat products that Canada either exports now to Japan or wants to export would not pose a threat. That includes meat products like beef because Canada’s beef would not be the same type as Japan’s kobe-style beef which
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