LAMB SAFEGUARDS

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE US, Australian and New Zealand governments have struck a deal over how to settle the dispute over American safeguard duties on Australasian lamb exports. Under the agreement, the US will continue to subsidise its domestic lamb producers until February 2003, after scrapping its protective tariff-rate quota safeguard this November 15.



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