Source · Select Committees · Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
First report - Australia FTA: Food and Agriculture
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee
HC 23
Published 17 June 2022
Recommendations
3
Accepted in Part
Para 25
In future negotiations the Government should ensure that its approach to negotiating changes to tariff...
Recommendation
In future negotiations the Government should ensure that its approach to negotiating changes to tariff free access to the UK meat market is more sophisticated than just weight of gross products and can differentiate between different cuts of meat—by using …
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Government Response Summary
The government states each FTA is bespoke and may include equivalence approaches, like Carcass Weight Equivalent, but there is no inherent advantage and final outcomes will depend on negotiations. They cite the UK-Australia trade deal includes an alternative mechanism for sheep meat to give added protections to UK producers.