Image: Australian Butcher’s Guild.
It could have been a boon for our region’s beef, dairy, and sheep producers – but the world’s second-largest market will continue to prop up its industry against our exporters with tariffs after the Australia-European Union deal stalled again five years into negotiation at the end of last week.
The National Farmers Federation (NFF) has backed Australia’s refusal to agree with the EU’s terms calling the “critically important” deal “sub-standard” on its current terms.
NFF’s President Tony Mahar travelled to Brussels along with Australia’s trade minister Don Farrell and ultimately supported the government’s position…