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US meat industry signals standards UK can expect in trade deals
On 29 January 2019 the United States Government had a public hearing about a possible future US/UK trade deal. If you would like to read a transcript of proceedings, you can find it here. It signals what US meat and dairy standards the UK can expect to be asked to accept in trade deals.
The submissions all have similar themes: these associations hope for increased trade with the UK, but would like to see us lower our tariffs, move away from high European regulatory standards (dropping the Precautionary Principle in the process, for example) and drop our protected food names.
If you’d like to read a summary of the various requests from the lobbyists to the US government, we recommend this article from the Huffington Post, which summarises a lot of the top issues.
Published Wednesday 27 February 2019
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