{"id":1145,"date":"2026-05-05T20:07:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulbrowntranslation.com\/?p=1145"},"modified":"2026-05-05T20:07:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T20:07:54","slug":"mercosur-trade-deal-strongly-disliked-by-canadian-beef-producers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulbrowntranslation.com\/pt-br\/2026\/05\/mercosur-trade-deal-strongly-disliked-by-canadian-beef-producers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercosur trade deal strongly disliked by Canadian beef producers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/paulbrowntranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/be399129-e276-4ebb-8b7f-af8fd94ec642-1-1024x683.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/paulbrowntranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/be399129-e276-4ebb-8b7f-af8fd94ec642-1-980x653.png 980w, https:\/\/paulbrowntranslation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/be399129-e276-4ebb-8b7f-af8fd94ec642-1-480x320.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1024px, 100vw\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Canadian beef producers are alarmed by the government&#8217;s pursuit of a free trade agreement with Mercosur, the South American trading bloc comprising Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. The president of the Canadian Cattlemen&#8217;s Association (CCA), Tyler Fulton, described the potential deal as offering &#8220;quite dubious benefits&#8221; for Canada, arguing that market access would be far from reciprocal.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The CCA, which represents 60,000 cattle farmers, reports that imports from Mercosur countries surged 238% between 2021 and 2025, with annual quotas exhausted within days this year. Producers fear a flood of cheaper South American beef \u2014 particularly from Brazil, the world&#8217;s largest beef exporter \u2014 could undermine domestic farmers who are already rebuilding herds following a prolonged drought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Mark Carney&#8217;s government is pushing ahead with the talks as part of a broader effort to reduce Canada&#8217;s heavy reliance on US trade, with a deal reportedly targeted for completion before the end of 2026. Critics also warn that Mercosur beef could serve as a back door into the US market, potentially breaching the existing USMCA trade agreement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Canada&#8217;s beef sector supports 350,000 jobs and contributes around US$34 billion to GDP annually, underlining the significant economic stakes involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Canadian beef producers are alarmed by the government&#8217;s pursuit of a free trade agreement with Mercosur, the South American trading bloc comprising Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. The president of the Canadian Cattlemen&#8217;s Association (CCA), Tyler Fulton, described the potential deal as offering &#8220;quite dubious benefits&#8221; for Canada, arguing that market access would be far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulbrowntranslation.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulbrowntranslation.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulbrowntranslation.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulbrowntranslation.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulbrowntranslation.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulbrowntranslation.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"https:\/\/paulbrowntranslation.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1145\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulbrowntranslation.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulbrowntranslation.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulbrowntranslation.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulbrowntranslation.com\/pt-br\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}