Wednesday October 11 10:31 PM ET U.S. Upset by Canadian Corn Dumping Probe WASHINGTON (Reuters) - United States officials said on Wednesday they were disappointed with a preliminary Canadian ruling that could lead to duties on imports of U.S. corn into western Canada. ``The Canadian government's finding that U.S. corn shipments have depressed Canadian corn prices is completely unsupported by the facts,'' U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky said in a statement. The …showed first 75 words of 270 total…

…showed last 75 words of 270 total…Trade Agreement. ``The U.S. does these sort of investigations all the time, the same kind of thing,'' said Steve Verheul, director of Agriculture Canada's trade policy divison. Verheul stressed that Canada is only looking at potential dumping of corn into its western provinces. The flare-up comes as Canada is hosting fellow members of the Cairns Group of agriculture-exporting countries, which contends the United States has been unfairly subsidizing its exports of ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**