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Re:Buttergate: Why are Canadians complaining about hard butter? by krrrh on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @11:14AM (#26251521)
We can also choose to impose tariffs on countries that unfairly subsidize their industries. Restricting external producers and restricting internal producers are actually separate issues that don't have to be entangled, as much as the Canadian dairy lobby loves sowing confusion on this by pretending that they are.

If having autarkic dairy production is important for some reason, limiting opportunities for local producers to enter the market is a weird way of achieving it.

Re:Buttergate: Why are Canadians complaining about hard butter? by sudosysgen on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @02:01PM (#26254067)
This is a nice theoric discussion but it's just that. Geopolitics doesn't play fair, if Canada tries this it will just get massively steamrolled by retaliatory tariffs.
Re:Buttergate: Why are Canadians complaining about hard butter? by krrrh on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @02:15PM (#26254248)
Dairy quotas are a persistent stumbling block for trade negotiations as it is, and the Canadian dairy industry is so coddled and protected domestically that they don’t mind that they are restricted from export markets.

That doesn’t address the failure of current policy to encourage or even allow dynamic domestic production of this category of commodities to meet consumer demand.