date:Jun 13, 2014
on, Minn., and chairman of NPPC's trade committee. US pork producers' support for a final TPP agreement has been conditioned on the elimination of all tariff and non-tariff barriers to US pork exports in each of the TPP nations. If the current Japanese offer on market access were to become part of the final TPP agreement, NPPC would not be able to support TPP or Trade Promotion Authority.
In its written testimony, NPPC also pointed out that if US negotiators allow special treatment for Japan so