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6 October
11:00 pm

Canada needs to remove barriers to our dairy products.

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Susan Collins, at Maine U.S. Senate General Election Debate 1 (WGME)

11:00 pm
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Why we checked itCollins asserts that Canada maintains trade barriers specifically on U.S. dairy products — a specific trade policy claim verifiable against trade agreements and customs data.
What we foundCanada does maintain a supply management system that restricts U.S. dairy access, but the claim overstates the barrier: under USMCA, U.S. dairy enters Canada tariff-free within quota thresholds that American exporters do not currently exhaust, making the practical effect of the barriers more limited than the claim implies.
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