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<p>The Government has negotiated a balanced agreement that maintains our high standards,
secures access to new and growing markets and includes strong protections for the
UK’s farmers and other agricultural producers, particularly in regard to our sensitive
sectors. For example, increased access to the UK market for sensitive agricultural
produce will be staged over a significant period of time – in most cases over 10 years
– allowing our producers to adjust to any new trade flows from CPTPP members. We have
also secured permanent annual limits on the amount of beef, pork, chicken, milled
rice, and sugar that can be imported tariff-free from the biggest CPTPP producers,
offering further protection to UK producers in these sensitive sectors.</p><p> </p><p>Additionally,
in line with our commitments following the signing of bilateral free trade agreements
with both Australia and New Zealand, we have not provided those countries with any
further market access on sensitive agricultural products as part of our CPTPP accession.
Finally, a general transitional safeguard mechanism on eligible products will provide
a temporary safety net for industry if they face serious injury, or threat of serious
injury, from increased imports from any CPTPP member as a result of the agreement.
The Government is clear that this represents a strong package of protections for our
farmers and agricultural producers.</p>
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