{"id":5307,"date":"2015-02-05T19:56:11","date_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5307"},"modified":"2015-02-05T19:56:11","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T00:56:11","slug":"canadian-government-optimistic-trade-war-with-u-s-averted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=5307","title":{"rendered":"Canadian Government &#8216;Optimistic&#8217; Trade War With U.S. Averted"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.ca\/2015\/02\/05\/canada-us-trade-war-averted_n_6624522.html\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian Government &#8216;Optimistic&#8217; Trade War With U.S. Averted<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>WASHINGTON &#8211; The Canadian government is expressing optimism that a trade war might be averted with the United States in a long-standing dispute over agricultural products.<\/p>\n<p>Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says he likes what he heard this week during a trip to Washington, and senses a willingness to adjust a U.S. regulatory policy at the heart of the dispute.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel very optimistic,&#8221; Ritz said Thursday during a conference call. &#8220;Far more so after this trip than after any of the others that I&#8217;ve done.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tariffs are looming over a range of American agricultural products, with Canada and Mexico both planning to penalize U.S. goods including wine, orange juice, pork and beef, barring an amicable resolution.<\/p>\n<p>The dispute stems from mandatory meat-labelling rules for U.S. beef, pork and chicken. Proponents believe American consumers deserve to know where their meat was born, raised and slaughtered.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian Government &#8216;Optimistic&#8217; Trade War With U.S. Averted WASHINGTON &#8211; The Canadian government is expressing optimism that a trade war might be averted with the United States in a long-standing dispute over agricultural products. Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz says he likes what he heard this week during a trip to Washington, and senses a willingness [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[3223,103,244,517,604,3222,834,865],"class_list":["post-5307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-geopolitics","tag-agricultural-products","tag-canada","tag-economics-2","tag-mexico","tag-ottawa","tag-trade-war","tag-us","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5308,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5307\/revisions\/5308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}