The Dairy Trade Coalition
   Saving the Spotted Cow for Generations to Come

Comprehensive Look at the Issue of Dairy Import Assessments

Dairy Trade Coalition Position Papers

• Promotional Assessments on Dairy Product Imports: A Dangerous Proposition
• Debunking the Myths of Import Assessments

Dairy Trade Coalition Letters, Memos and other Documents

• Letter from WIFE to Senator Daschle regarding the dairy import assessment (December 14, 2001)
• Letter from WIFE to Senator Dayton regarding the dairy import assessment (December 14, 2001)
• Import Assessment Not Worth Risks to Dairy TRQs, Checkoff Program, DTC Warns, DTC Press Release December 11, 2001
• "US Farm Bill Will Damage All of the World's Farmers" - Minister Truss, Australian New Release December 11, 2001
• Letter from Senator Robert Torricelli to Senator Tom Harkin, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition & Forestry, regarding Section 146 of the House-passed farm bill.
• The Truth About the Farm Bill Dairy Assessment Provision, A letter to the Wisconsin Delegation rebutting a letter sent by Jerry Kozak of National Milk Producers Federation (NMPF)
• A Very Merry Dairy Fairy Tale
• U.S. Dairy Imports and Exports Since the Uruguay Round Agreements depicted in tab and graph form
• DTC letter to House Agriculture Committee, Secretary of Agriculture and USTR regarding dairy import assessment to the National Dairy Promotion and Research Board.
• Letter from Eric Schippers, Center for Individual Freedom to Ruth Laribee, National Dairy Chairman of WIFE, regarding CIF's position on dairy import assessments
• Letter from Claude Bachand, Member of the Canadian Parliament to President George Bush regarding the dairy import assessment included in Section 146 of the 2002 Farm Bill)
• Letter from Dr. A.J. van de Ven, Secretary General of the European Dairy Association to Mr. D. Roberts of the European Commission regarding the import assessment portion of the 2002 Farm Bill.
• Letter from Senator Jon Corzine to Senator Tom Harkin, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry regarding Section 146 of the House-passed farm bill.

Supporting Documents and Reports

• Resolution from the California Dairy Campaign opposing the extension of the dairy promotion assessment to dairy imports
• Assessment on Imported Dairy Products - Constitutional and Trade Law Concerns, prepared for the DTC by Robins Kaplan Miller & Ciresi
• House Report 107-91 - Farm Security Act of 2001 Section 146.

Newspaper Articles

• The Country Today -- "Dairy Import Assessments Need Some Further Review" (February 27, 2002)
• The Cheese Reporter -- "'Unintended Negative Consequences' Of Proposed Dairy Import Assessment Aired" (February 15, 2002)
• Agri-View Dairy -- "Farm Bill's Trade Provisions Eyed" (February 14, 2002)
• The Capital Times - "Dairy Import Fee Could End Up Hurting State Farmers" (February 6, 2002)
• Watertown Daily Times - "Dairy Trade Coalition Chief Proposes Compromise on Imports, Ad Funding" (February 5, 2002)
• The Cheese Reporter -- "Australia Argues US Farm Subsidy will Undermine Trade Negotiation Credibility" (December 14, 2001)
• The Cheese Reporter -- "Lessons from the Case of Canada's Dairy Export Schemes" (December 14, 2001)
• Cheese Market News "Australia ag minister, importers express concern about proposed import assessment" (December 14, 2001)
• Wisconsin State Farmer -- "Dairy import assessment debate still on in Washington" (December 14, 2001)
• Milkweed -- "Will Politicians Trade Off TRQs for Promo Fee on Imports" (December 12, 2001)
• The Wisconsin State Farmer -- "Farmers thinking twice on importer dairy assessments" (December 4, 2001)
• The Wisconsin State Farmer -- "WIFE group calls for commodity checkoff votes" (November 23, 2001)
• Cheese Reporter -- "Promotion Program Evaluation Spurs Thoughts of Future" (October 26, 2001)
• WIFE Line -- "Got MPC" (October 22, 2001)
• The Milkweed -- "Group Urging Producers to Kill Dairy Promotion Checkoff"  (October 2001)
• Cheese Reporter -- "Ad Campaign Seeks Dairy Farmer Support In Effort to End Generic Ad Programs" (September 28, 2001)
• The Country Today -- "Group Questions Dairy Checkoff" (September 26, 2001)
• The Webster Agricultural Letter -- "Challenges to Promotion Checkoffs Sprout Like Mushrooms" (August 24, 2001)
• Cheese Market News -- "Dairy Trade Coalition Opposes Requiring Importers to Pay 15-cent Check-off" (August 31, 2001)
• Cheese Market News -- "Perspective:  Guest Columnists - Ruth Laribee" (September 14, 2001)
• Cheese Market News -- "Perspective:  Guest Columnists - Jerry Kozak and Paul Bensabat" (September 7, 2001)
• Cheese Reporter -- "Promo Assessment on Dairy Imports Raises Trade, Constitutional Concerns" (August 24, 2001)
• Cheese Reporter -- "Latest Expertise Needed in Dairy Business:  Constitutional Law" (August 24, 2001)
• The Adirondack Mountain Sun -- "Requiring Importers to Pay Promotion Assessments is a Double Edged Sword" (August 24, 2001)
• Cheese Reporter -- "Pondering the Long-Term Impacts of Dairy Imports" (August 17, 2001)
• Cheese Reporter -- "Views on the Promotional Assessment on Dairy Imports" (August 3, 2001)
• Cheese Reporter -- "Assessment on Imports Nothing More Than A Bad Tax" (July 13, 2001)