EU FTA a Kick in the Guts to the Meat Industry
The Australian Meat Industry Council (AMIC) has expressed extreme disappointment with the outcome of the European Australia Free Trade Agreement (FTA), which locks in restrictive red meat access, resulting in a permanent competitive disadvantage for Australian meat to the EU.
The volumes and conditions attached to beef, sheep and goat meat trade to the European Union under this FTA limits, rather than supports trade into this important market of 450 million consumers.
The details are particularly hard to stomach for an industry which is already under attack from global trade restrictions and facing significant increases to the taxes charged by the Australian Government on meat exporters...
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