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Karl Kynoch
- Canadian Pork Council Traceability and Zoning Committee |
| Farmscape for May 3, 2004 (Episode 1507)
Manitoba Pork Council estimates its share of fighting a US trade action against imported live Canadian hogs could reach one million dollars.
The US Department of Commerce and International Trade Commission are investigating US producer complaints that live Canadian hogs dumped into the US are causing them injury.
Manitoba Pork Council Chair Karl Kynoch says steps are being taken to ensure funding is adequate for a coordinated defense.
Clip-Karl Kynoch-Manitoba Pork Council
We've been doing some estimates on what this might possibly cost Canada and we're probably looking at at least two and a half million dollars and these figures could climb in the defense of this thing.
This, right now, is intended to be divided out provincially across Canada on a per pig basis.
Roughly, just for the Manitoba portion right now, we're probably estimating anywhere from 700 thousand to a million dollars.
Remember those are estimated and they're changing.
The other thing we've done here at pork council, we've put some programs on temporary hold and we've done some cuts where possible.
Our concern is to make sure we have adequate funding for this because this has huge potential to hurt our industry.
Some of the things we don't know yet, which are waiting to be determined, is for example on the international trade commission on May 7th.
That's the day that they decide if there's a treat of injury and whether the investigation will continue on further.
Hopefully, for us, on that date they'll decide there was no threat of injury and the case will be dropped.
In the event the case moves forward, we're trying to be prepared and be proactive to ensure we have adequate funding available.
Kynoch says several Canadian groups have retained their own legal representation, in both Canada and the US, and it's important for those representatives to maintain good lines of communication to make sure they present a unified defense.
For Farmscape.Ca, I'm Bruce Cochrane.
*Farmscape is a presentation of Sask Pork and Manitoba Pork Council |
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