Archive for NAFTA
Ranch Group’s COOL Petition Gains Nearly 34K Signatures Since Mid-October
Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – Less than one-month ago, R-CALF USA issued a member alert seeking help in gaining thousands of signatures on a petition addressed to U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross. The…
R-CALF USA: Checkoff Contractor Undermining President Trump’s Trade Policy
Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – In a complaint and request for investigation filed yesterday with Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue and United States Trade Ambassador Robert Lighthizer, R-CALF USA accused a major Beef…
NAFTA negotiations and its American beef
By Mike Schultz and Martin Rosas September 21, 2017 4:50 AM While many across America have focused on the wreckage of American factories caused by the North American Free Trade Agreement, more families saw their livelihoods impacted by NAFTA hammering America’s beef industry. As a family farmer in…
Ranch Group Supports 12 NAFTA Improvements
For Immediate Release September 11, 2017 Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – Although R-CALF USA and several other member-groups of the Coalition for a Prosperous America (CPA) had already weighed-in with the Trump Administration on the need to reform the North American Free Trade…
Group Responds to Latest Round of NCBA’s False Claims
Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com Billings, Mont. – The below statement can be attributed to R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard: “I don’t recall ever meeting the NCBA’s new CEO, Kendal Frazier. However, I just read his opinion piece “NCBA CEO: Unholy Alliances” published July 24, 2017…
R-CALF USA to Testify at USTR NAFTA Hearing
For Immediate Release: June 26, 2017 Contact: R-CALF USA CEO Bill Bullard Phone: 406-252-2516; r-calfusa@r-calfusa.com “The most important modernization that the USTR can make to NAFTA . . . is to require mandatory COOL for all beef sold in America . . .” Washington, D.C. – R-CALF USA CEO Bill…
R-CALF USA to USTR: Make Seven Improvements to NAFTA
Billings, Mont. – In comprehensive comments submitted yesterday to the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR), R-CALF USA states the 24-year-old North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) benefited transnational meatpackers at the expense of the majority of U.S. cattlemen, meaning all those who sell exclusively U.S.-born and -raised…
Why and How Mandatory COOL Should Be Reinstated Through the NAFTA Renegotiations
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Congress passed the mandatory country of origin labeling (COOL) law in 2002 to provide consumers with information as to the origins of their food. However, it was not until early 2013 that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) finally implemented COOL in a manner that accurately distinguished beef…