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Farrell defends EU free trade agreement
Don Farrell says overwhelmingly the agriculture industry has supported the free trade agreement made with the EU yesterday, and asks the cattle industry to “come onboard”.
Overwhelmingly, agriculture in this country has come out in support of the agreement. With the cattle producers, we’ve got an 800% increase in our access to the European market as a result of this agreement. And if the Europeans had made this offer to me in the last time we had formal negotiations, then we would have accepted it.
We finally negotiated the agreement in Sydney on Monday, and we told them at the earliest opportunity on Tuesday. So I don’t think that’s a fair criticism at all. And we’ve been briefing their associations all the way along the line.
We’re not considering this idea of a $40 price cap, that comes from a document that was released by the then government in 2019 and the situation has obviously changed between 2019 and 2026 …
We will continue to consider what options might be necessary in the future but I can knock that one on the head.
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