The Canadian government last week announced allocations of tariff-rate quotas (TRQs) for cheese imports from the European Union under the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA). The agreement, which goes into effect September 21, further restricts the limited access that U.S. cheese exporters have to the Canadian market.
CETA will allow a total of 17,700 metric tons of cheese to enter Canada from EU member countries. This number includes 800 metric tons Canada reallocated from its World Trade Organization TRQ for cheese.
The Canadian government announced it will gradually increase TRQ levels to meet this total over a period of five years. To start, it set a tariff-rate quota for the remainder of 2017 of more than 824 metric tons for both cheeses sold for retail and for further food manufacturing and sets the tariff-rate quota at 5,900 metric tons for 2018.
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