2nd USMCA Panel Established Over Canadian Dairy TRQs

The U.S. filed its initial written submission March 20 in its second panel under the USMCA trade deal over Canada's dairy tariff-rate quotas, arguing that various elements of Canada's TRQ allocation system "remain fundamentally inconsistent with Canada's USMCA obligations," according to a copy of the submission posted by the International Economic Law and Policy blog.

Canada and the U.S. picked Mateo Diego-Fernandez, former Mexican minister to the World Trade Organization, to serve as the panel chair, while Canada tapped Georgetown Law professor Kathleen Claussen and the U.S. chose Serge Frechette, former vice chairperson of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal, as the other two panelists.

The selections come days after a similar panel was formed under the 11-member Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (see 2303200014).