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Vetter: U.S. Clarifying Japanese Pork Subsidy Program With NPPC, Tokyo

February 12, 2016 at 12:19 PM
A senior U.S. trade official said Thursday (Feb. 11) that the Obama administration is working with the National Pork Producers Council (NPPC) and the Japanese government to clarify the details of an expanded pork subsidy program that Tokyo plans to implement along with the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), but stopped short of saying the U.S. was seeking changes to the program. Darci Vetter, chief agricultural negotiator in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, also argued that the TPP agreement represents...

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