BRAZIL AND EU STRIKE DEAL ON CHICKEN IMPORTS
November 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has struck a deal with Brazil, increasing its rights to export salted poultrymeat, turkey meat preparations and cooked chicken meat into the European Union (EU). The deal has solved a long running World Trade Organisation (WTO) battle, where Brazil successfully argued that the EU was denying it rights to export salted poultrymeat that it had previously accepted in the WTO's 1994 Marrakesh Agreement. Under the new deal, the EU will accept 264,245 tons of salted poultrymeat from all sources at 15.4% duty, with Brazil ...
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