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Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures and Tariff-Rate Quotas for U.S. Meat Exports to the European Union

  • by Shawn Arita, Jayson Beckman, Lindsay Kuberka and Alex Melton
  • 12/2/2014
  • LDPM-245-01

Overview

The EU is one of the world's largest producers and consumers of beef, pork, and poultry, but EU tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) and sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) policies continue to limit imports of U.S. meats.

Errata: On December 9, 2014, the last paragraph on page 5 was revised to provide more detailed information on allocation of the EU TRQ for beef. On page 7, the first sentence in the box, the units for Canadian damages were revised to Canadian dollars. Five new citations were added to the references.

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