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TPP impacts outlined in USDA infographics

The Obama Administration has mentioned more than once specific details about tariff reductions and eliminations resulting from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement.

“We’ll see 74 percent of the tariff lines or taxes that have been assessed by the Japanese on beef and beef products eliminated or cut over the next 16 years,” said Tom Vilsack, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, during a conference call with reporters shortly after the agreement was finalized.  “Sixty-five percent of tariffs on pork will be eliminated in Japan in 11 years or less, nearly 80 percent in 16 years or less.”

Vilsack says market opportunities will also open in Malaysia and Vietnam where all tariffs will be reduced or eliminated.

U.S. federal agencies have made available ways to determine the effects of the TPP on differing commodities and individual states.  Phil Karsting, administrator for USDA’s Foreign Agriculture Service, says that impact is shown in a series of web infographics.

“They show what this means for each state, and what it means for each sector,” said Karsting, in an interview provided by the USDA, “whether it’s beef or pork or potatoes or corn or citrus.”

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