date:Jul 12, 2012
process.
New Zealand Pork CEO Owen Symmans said that both federal and provincial government subsidies were a concern, giving the example of the Province of Ontarios new countervailable subsidy programme, the Risk Management Programme, which gives Canadian pork producers a guaranteed return.
This sort of blatant subsidisation places competing pork producers, who do not subsidise their production, at a distinctive disadvantage,he said.
Distorting markets
A study by Dermot Hayes, an economist