MEAT AND DAIRY QUOTA ROW STALLS CANADIAN FREE TRADE TALKS
January 1st, 2013
Free trade talks between the European Union (EU) and Canada have hit a last minute impasse, with the EU demanding more access to Canadian dairy markets and Canada wanting to sell more meat products in the EU.Milk, poultry and eggs are subject to production marketing controls in Canada and so the Canadian government is only offering small import quotas in dairy products for European exports, while demanding significant EU meat import quotas. A European Commission document on the talks shows the EU is not impressed: “Canada is asking important volumes of beef, in ...
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