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The EU sets precedent with the first animal welfare-based condition in a trade agreement
21-Jul-2021 Eurogroup For Animals
For the first time, the EU set an animal welfare-based condition in the EU-Mercosur agreement but it is not sufficient to save the deal as it stands.
Trade agreements privatising biodiversity
15-Jul-2021 GRAIN
For the past 30 years, industrialised countries have been forcing governments of the global South to adopt laws that privatise seeds, mainly through free trade agreements.
Taiwan voters should look before they leap on pork referendum
13-Jul-2021 Brookings
The decision that Taiwan’s voters reach in the December referendum on whether to reverse President Tsai Ing-wen’s decision to allow importation of U.S. pork containing ractopamine could have significant strategic reverberations.
Farm antibiotics use and new trade deals
12-Jul-2021 Poultry World
Concerns about excessive use of antibiotics in the Australian poultry and livestock sectors has prompted an alliance of UK medical, environmental and animal welfare organisations.
The EU milk lookalike that is devastating West Africa’s dairy sector
8-Jul-2021 Politico
The local dairy industry has come under increasing pressure since Burkina Faso and its neighbors opened their markets to Europe under a series of trade agreements that stretch back almost two decades.
Can Cambodia’s farmers reap the benefit of China trade deal?
5-Jul-2021 Nikkei Asian Review
How inclusive development of the agriculture sector will be, given that many of Cambodia’s larger fruit plantations are owned by, or are joint partnerships with, Chinese investors?
Animal welfare standards still an issue despite UK FTA
5-Jul-2021 Sheep Central
Australia’s ongoing use of animal welfare practices banned in other countries will continue to cause difficulties in trading relationships.
Industry alarmed at details of Australia/UK trade deal
17-Jun-2021 County Times
The farming industry has raised serious concerns over a new trade deal between the UK and Australia, fearing it could harm British farmers’ livelihoods.
Australia and UK finalise free trade deal
16-Jun-2021 Canberra Times
Australia Prime Minister has hailed a free trade deal with the United Kingdom as the most comprehensive and ambitious in Australia’s history announced the deal on Tuesday after sealing an in-principle agreement over dinner overnight.
Farmers’ opposition to UK-Australia trade deal grows
2-Jun-2021 BBC
Opposition among UK farmers is growing towards a trade deal close to being concluded with Australia. They say there are no meaningful safeguards in place to stop farmers being undercut by cheap imports.
Farmers to protest against Australia tariff-free trade deal
28-May-2021 Farmers Weekly
Fed-up farmers are preparing to stage protests over UK government plans to sign tariff-free trade deals with Australia and other countries, which they fear could lead to a flood of cheap food imports.
US amping up dispute with Canada over allowed exports of American dairy products
26-May-2021 CBC
American producers say Canada is denying them fair access to the Canadian market.
Truss’s naivety on trade with Australia could leave the UK exposed
25-May-2021 The Guardian
If the UK agrees to Australia’s demands for no tariffs on agriculture, it sets a dangerous precedent for other, bigger deals
Brexit exclusive: UK-Norway trade deal close to collapsing as Christian-Democrats block pact to protect farmers from British beef and cheese
25-May-2021 City AM
A comprehensive free trade deal between the UK and Norway is at risk of collapsing as the Christian Democrat party fears such a pact would hit farmers in Scandinavia’s richest country too hard.
UK trade deal with Australia ‘must not harm Welsh farmers’, says Welsh Gov
19-May-2021 Nation Cymru
A UK trade deal with Australia “must not disadvantage” Wales’ farmers, the Welsh Government has said.
Ag sector pushes for better UK trade deal
19-May-2021 Rural News
New Zealand dairy companies want a UK trade deal that comprehensively removes agricultural tariffs.
Dairibord cautious of AfCFTA
12-May-2021 Newsday
DAIRIBORD Holdings Limited has said although the African Continental Free Trade Area could unlock a string of spinoffs, significant threats to intra-African trade would also arise.
Unmasking the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
12-May-2021 GRAIN
CPEC is an essential component of the Belt and Road Initiative, intended on creating new production sites and trade routes to connect China better with the rest of the world.
UK-Australia trade deal could mean children and patients eating meat reared in ways illegal in UK, warn experts
11-May-2021 The Independent
‘It would be grossly hypocritical for the government to allow unsustainable meat to be served in schools and hospitals,’ say critics
MPs want CS Maina summoned over ’secret’ sugar importation deal
7-May-2021 The Star
MPs drawn from the sugar belt region now want Parliament to summon Trade CS Betty Maina over what they term a ’secret’ sugar importation deal with Uganda. They said the importation will kill the local industry.