THAILAND AND EU STRIKE DEAL OVER POULTRY EXPORTS
December 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has now struck a deal with Thailand, increasing its previously disputed rights to export salted poultrymeat and cooked chicken into the European Union (EU). As with the recent announcement regarding Brazil, the agreement solves a long running World Trade Organisation (WTO) battle. With the Thais, their exporters get an allocation of 92,610 tonnes of a general 264,245 tonne salted poultrymeat quota at 15.4% duty, and for quantities above this, at Euro 1,300/tonne duty. For cooked chicken meat, Thailand can fill 160,033 ...
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