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Senators Ask for Elimination of Trade Barriers to U.S. Pork

Tue, 17 Dec 2013 13:01:23 CST

Senators Ask for Elimination of Trade Barriers to U.S. Pork
A group of U.S. senators is urging U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to push for broad market access for U.S. pork in the countries that are part of the current Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade talks.


The TPP is a regional trade negotiation that includes the United States, Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam, which account for nearly 40 percent of global GDP.


In a letter circulated by Sens. Joe Donnelly, D-Ind., and Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, and sent Friday to Froman and Vilsack, 32 Senate lawmakers said the TPP talks represent an opportunity for the United States to open new markets to U.S. pork in the Asia-Pacific region, to expand existing markets and to establish a standard for future trade agreements.


But, the senators pointed out, a number of the TPP nations currently have highly restrictive trade barriers that limit U.S. pork exports. Japan, for example, maintains a complex system of tariffs that reduce the volume of U.S. pork exports, while other countries have non-tariff barriers that constrain U.S. pork shipments.


U.S. negotiators should insist that tariff and non-tariff barriers to U.S. pork in each TPP country be removed, action that would prompt U.S. pork exports to grow by more than 50 percent within 10 years, they said.


A comprehensive TPP agreement that eliminates all tariff and non-tariff barriers to U.S. pork is strongly supported by the National Pork Producers Council.


"Increasing pork exports are important to many more Americans than just pork producers," said NPPC President Randy Spronk, a hog farmer from Edgerton, Minn., who pointed out that more than 110,000 U.S. jobs are generated by U.S. pork exports. "So a comprehensive agreement that gives the U.S. pork industry more access to the markets of the TPP countries will be good for pork producers and the U.S. economy."



   

 

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