Byron Dorgan: “Today I am reintroducing a bipartisan bill to remedy a long-standing inequity in pesticide pricing between agricultural…”

“Today I am reintroducing a bipartisan bill to remedy a long-standing inequity in pesticide pricing between agricultural chemicals sold in Canada and similar use chemicals sold in the United States. This pesticide price disparity has caused an undue cost burden on our American farmers putting them at a distinct disadvantage when competing in the world grain market. Currently, American and Canadian farmers use the same chemicals on their fields; but they are marketed under different labels and sold at much lower cost north of the border. This bill simply eliminates that inequity by setting up a process that would allow American farmers to access these lower-priced--but substantively identical--pesticides. This legislation would direct the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, upon the request of anyone who can comply with the pesticide registration requirements of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act, FIFRA, to register a Canadian pesticide for use in the United States.”