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Source: Diane Ravitch
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With more than 80 percent of the wheat grown in the Pacific Northwest being exported, it goes without saying that trade is critical for our wheat growers. Japan –the world’s largest buyer of soft white wheat — is attempting to hold on to tariffs for five ag products in the recent Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations.
Immediate Past Oregon Wheat Growers League President Walter Powell shares more about the valuable relationship the Pacific Northwest has with our Japanese trading partners and the importance of Japan eliminating tariffs from ALL products.
Powell: “Many of our rail cars and barges moved through facilities on the Lower Columbia owned by our Japanese partners — a business relationship, a partnership and a friendship spanning generations. Last year U.S. wheat producers welcomed Japan’s entrance into the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations. The opportunities are significant for all nations involved as when a nation joins into these deliberations it is understood and expected that all nations are accepting of the high standards involved in this agreement. One of those standards is comprehensive tariff elimination. We look forward to a comprehensive...
From an article titled ‘Officials Announce Plan to End Vancouver Truck Strike’ in the Journal of Commerce:
The Canadian federal government, the provincial government of British Columbia and Port Metro Vancouver have announced a 14-point action plan that authorities believe will end the two-week strike by harbor truck drivers that has reduced truck traffic to 15 to 25 percent of normal levels.
Implementation of the action plan, which would revise the truck licensing system at Canada’s largest port, will only take place if both unionized drivers and independent owner-operators return to work. The port authority, which controls issuance of the licenses that drivers must have to operate in the harbor, is expected to use that authority as leverage to get the drivers back to work.
Most likely, drivers that refuse to return to work will lose their licenses to call at marine terminals. The joint government/port authority statement said those drivers who refuse to immediately return to work will jeopardize their opportunity to provide drayage services at the port.
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“K” Line said a trucker strike at Port Metro Vancouver has forced the carrier to declare force majeure and to divert import containers for local Vancouver delivery to Tacoma, Wash.
The carrier said the declaration affects shipments on the Genoa Bridge and Yang Ming New Jersey. Intermodal rail shipments and export cargo are not affected. “K” Line said it acted after the Vancouver terminal it uses embargoed import containers because of the driver strike.
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Canadian National Railway on Friday obtained an injunction against striking union and non-union truck groups that will prevent their drivers from blocking access to the railroad’s intermodal terminal serving Port Metro Vancouver.
British Columbia Supreme Court Judge George Macintosh granted the injunction prohibiting United Truckers Association and Unifor-Vancouver Container Truckers Association from obstructing people or vehicles seeking access to the Surrey, British Columbia, terminal. Under the injuction, truck drivers and others can assemble outside the terminal. CN spokesman Jim Feeney said the order is essential for the railroad to serve its customers.
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