Trade Deal with Australia: British Food Standards

Part of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs – in the House of Commons at on 17 June 2021.

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Photo of George Eustice George Eustice The Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

We secured some important mitigations to help the farming industry, including the fact that a tariff rate quota will stay in place for the first 10 years on both beef and sheep, and for the subsequent five years there will be a special agricultural safeguard that means that if volumes go above a certain trigger, tariffs immediately snap back in. We have put in place mitigations through the quota for the first 10 years and through that safeguard.