ABSTRACT
In the past few years, the number of agricultural trade actions between Canada and the United States has escalated, affecting a significant volume of trade between the two countries. This development demonstrates that there are serious frictions in our agricultural trading relationship. Although agriculture represents only 4 percent of total bilateral trade, most of the recent countervailing duty and antidumping investigations between the two countries have involved agricultural products. 1 If fish and forest products are included within the rubric of agriculture, then the percentage of trade cases involving agricultural products becomes even more significant.
