Tariffs & quotas

Committee:
Food & Agriculture
status:
Good progress
Published:
With the implementation of the EU-Japan EPA, and the removal or reduction of tariffs, EU products now have an improved market access. Also the administration of the TRQs has increased after some teething problem in the beginning. The EBC has big hopes that this will also translate to more European food products in the shopping bags of Japanese consumers. It is however important that these liberalisations are implemented without the use of stringent safeguard measures and that also TRQ administration is improved.

Recommendations

  • The TRQs for cream are currently subdivided in many categories. This makes it difficult to get an overview of the segment.
  • TRQ11 should be re-defined so that drink related products (coffee and tea) and food related products (food preparations and dough) are put in two different TRQs.