USA CHINA EU IMPORT QUOTA CHICKEN BEEF CATTLE
February 1st, 2006
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has proposed opening 15 meat and livestock European Union (EU) annual import quotas for American products, including 16,665 tonnes of poultry meat. The move has been negotiated with Washington because of the EU's incorporation in 2004 of 10 eastern and southern European countries. They had their own US market access deals before becoming member states, and these must be incorporated into rules for the whole EU. So Brussels is proposing new US import quotas, which would also cover 4,000 tonnes of bovine meat products, ...
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