EU MEAT INDUSTRY HAS CONCERNS ABOUT CETA DEAL – BUT CANADA SECTOR OPTIMISTIC
October 1st, 2016
THE LEADER of Europe’s farmers has warned that the European Union (EU)-Canada Comprehensive Economic & Trade Agreement (CETA), whose legal texts were finally signed on Sunday (Oct 30), will be “a painful exercise” for the EU meats sector, EU farm body Copa-Cogeca secretary general Pekka Pesonen has claimed.
He told GlobalMeatNews today (October 31): “The TRQs [tariff-reduced quotas] in beef and pig meat given to Canada are quite substantial. We have no doubt that the Canadian meat industry will use them,” Mr Pesonen said.
“However, we welcome ...
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