Japan Revises Safeguards on Pork, Beef After Japan-EU Trade Deal
Japan revised its beef and pork safeguards to reflect the recent trade agreement signed between Japan and the European Union, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said in a March 8 report. The Japan-EU agreement, which took effect Feb. 1, revises…
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Japanese safeguards on volumes of beef and pork imports for all EU countries, the report said. “The revision removes EU imports from the trigger conditions which count imports only from countries with which Japan does not have a free trade agreement,” according to the report. Japan made a similar revision to its safeguards as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership entered into force on Dec. 30, 2018.