Canada To Provide ‘Limited’ New TPP Access For Supply Managed Products

Canada will offer additional market access for all of its supply managed products of dairy, poultry and eggs by creating new tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) under the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement that would be phased in over five years in equal increments and be open to all parties, but represent only a fraction of domestic production of these commodities, according to informed sources. A Canadian government fact sheet released on Oct. 5 characterized the new access as “limited,” saying the new...