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Novel TPP Provisions Aim To Prevent Ag Biotech 'LLP' Rejections

November 17, 2015 at 9:16 AM
The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) contains novel provisions on agricultural biotechnology that aim to avoid instances of agricultural shipments being turned away for containing trace amounts -- or a “low level presence” (LLP) -- of a biotech trait that is not authorized in the importing country but is permitted in the exporting TPP nation. The language, contained in Article 2.29 of the National Treatment and Market Access for Goods chapter of TPP, goes beyond all previous U.S. free trade agreements in...

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