UK-Canada Trade Barriers to Increase Amid Failure to Reach Deal - BNN Bloomberg
www.bnnbloomberg.ca
Provisions allowing the UK to sell products containing European Union parts to Canada tariff-free will expire on Monday, after the two countries failed to reach an agreement on extensions.
  • LimpRimble
    31·
    8 months ago

    The breakdown in negotiations was mostly due to Canada’s insistence on the UK loosening its food safety regulations, according to several people familiar with the matter.

    Canada’s agriculture and food processing market is geared toward exporting to the US, where practices such as chemical carcass-washing and hormone-injected beef and pork are commonplace. In the EU, and the UK by virtue of its former membership of the bloc, such practices are banned.

    I don’t blame them for not accepting that deal.

    • recursive_recursion [they/them]@programming.devEnglish
      172·
      8 months ago

      agreed

      whoever was Canada’s negotiator is a dumbass

      as a Canadian this is just downright embarassing, there is no one sane in the world who would accept to importing low quality goods when there are better options all around

    • Avid Amoeba
      14·
      8 months ago

      That’s on the heels of British farmers protesting exactly the import of inferior products that they themselves aren’t allowed to grow.

    • ILikeBoobies
      63·
      8 months ago

      The sooner we break away with the Americans and realign with the crown the better

  • Rentlar
    7·
    8 months ago

    It’s kind of embarrassing that Canadian food safety standards are based on being marginally better than the US…

    We do need more secondary industries within Canada to use the abundance of resources we have. Trade deals with other countries are an easy way to give it away.