The United States National Pork Producers Council

Food & Drink Weekly, March 22, 2004

U.S. pork farmers have asked the federal government to erect 20% punitive countervailing and antidumping duties on Canadian pork imports to the United States, claiming that Canada's national and provincial aid packages keep pork prices artificially low. The United States National Pork Producers Council has alleged that Canadian pork is undermining American market prices and has also accused Canadian producers of dumping live pigs at cut-rate prices in the United States.

That said, Canadian pigs make up a relatively small portion of the American pork market. Last year, roughly 7.4 million live pigs were exported from Canada to the United States, while nearly 100 million U.S.-bred pigs were slaughtered.