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Other leading pork countries join NPPC letter

A letter to Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiators from the top pork countries urges them to eliminate ALL tariffs on nearly all products, pork included.

The National Pork Producers Council says they’ve been joined by hog groups in Australia, Chile and Mexico. The NPPC says the objectives of the trade agreement with one-dozen countries includes no product or sector exclusions and that all tariffs and other market access barriers – like Japan’s Gate Price – be eliminated.

Nick Giordano, NPPC Vice President and Counsel of International Affairs – at this year’s World Pork Expo – told Brownfield that it is an unfair exemption…

“The farmers in Japan are really – painting some sort of doomsday scenario that has no basis in fact. And, NPPC isn’t going to agree to anything other than elimination of the Gate Price and all tariffs.” The letter says other countries are “likely to demand a Japan-type deal” because it would set a “dangerous precedent” if allowed to go through.

  • VERY commendable. Agriculture comes back to the free trade philosophies of an Adam Smith or David Ricardo at long last. Wish it were the same for soy beans the US subsidizes or that the European Common Agricultural Policies were scrapped too. The end result is that in Africa people are starving and in the US and Europe food prices are rising. No doubt Japan has a similar “good reason” for its “gating”. Japan and esp. it “Liberal” Party has long been known for making policies that get the incumbent parliamentarians votes in their home districts, either by building more unnecessary infrastructure or by pampering farmers.

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