> These are the figures I�ve found on the internet today.
>
> Does anyone have other figures.
>
> 1 January 2005
> Dairy quota categories and access amounts
>
> Non-Fat Dried Milk Powder and Skim Milk Powder 100 t (What a laugh. This
> is
> five minutes production.)
>
> Other Milk Powders 4 000 t
>
> Butter/Butterfat 1 500 t
>
> Out-of-quota TRQ dairy products tariff rates:
> United States -> 60-70%
You miss the point of quota. Quota indicates there is no demand for
product in excess of the amount. Excess supply depresses prices. What this
tells you is find a market where climate and conditions make dairying
impossible or very limited, which pretty much describes Red China.
>
> The 2001 Abare study found a 50% cut in volume of product sold with export
> subsidies would have raised 1999 world prices by 17-35 percent.
Surpluses depress markets not subsidies.
>
> The subsidies� impact:
> Average subsidy applied to US Skim Milk Powder exports amounted to 44% of
> the average domestic market price.
>
If you're refering to the CWT export program, this is a privately funded
program, not a taxpayer supported subsidy. And if the US did not have to
deal with MPC imports displacing domestic production, that US milk powder
would have been used in the cheese vats. The current move to
ultra-filtered milk will seriously challenge foreign MPCs in the future,
hopefully pushing your MPC elsewheres.
>
> (Dave you can see that Australia is your problem, thanks to Iraq, not New
> Zealand.)
I'm just as against the Australian free trade agreement as I am against
NAFTA, CAFTA, etc.
>
> The demand for fluid milk has fallen in recent years and some suggest this
> is due to the industry not keeping pace with consumer preferences for
> convenience in packaging and lifestyle links in advertising. The industry
> has however benefited from the popularity of fast food, which has fuelled
> demand for cheese, butter and cream products.
> Cheese consumption in the US continues to grow. American consumers are
> focussed on natural cheeses and different types of cheeses. Processed
> cheeses have begun to decline in sales. Speciality cheese has grown 5
> times
> as fast as overall cheese consumption. Around 9 percent of all cheese
> consumed is speciality cheese.
>
> Vaughan Jones
Demand for beverage milk in the US has declined primarily because US women
were brain-washed into thinking that drinking milk was going to make them
fat. (So they did the really stupid thing and drank gallons of
sugar-loaded soda pop instead. ) The beverage milk industry responded,
not by countering the fat issue, but by making 1%, and skim milk which does
not taste very good because it was the fat that created flavor.
Ironically the segement of the ice cream business that is growing is premium
ice cream (which contains more fat than the typical ice creams.) . While
specialty cheese are growing, the big powerhouse in US cheese demand is
pizza.
The dairy industry also failed to counter the "butter is bad for you"
issue.
Eventually, but the damage was done, it was discovered that margarine was
far worse in negative health effects.
Dave G.
