A new deal allowing the United Kingdom inclusion in the
Trans-Pacific Partnership maintains strict limits on Canadian beef exports to
the U.K. while allowing all other partners access.
Canada is now left to try to get a better deal in direct trade
negotiations with the United Kingdom.
The Canadian Cattlemen’s Association is complaining about the
double standard in the new TPP deal.
Others have access, but we have been informed that similar
access for Canada is ‘off the table’,” the cattlemen’s association said.
Also, the CCA said, there’s “no current progress being made to
address the main obstacle to the U.K. market – the full acceptance of Canada’s
meat hygiene system, which is widely recognized as one of the finest in the
world.”
The CCA said it “will draw a hard line that this barrier must be
addressed in Canada’s bilateral agreement with the U.K.”
The deal apparently yields no more Canadian dairy-market access
to the U.K.
