AreaChina (Mainland)

Commodity GroupMeat

CommodityBovine meat

Date01/08/2011

Policy CategoryTrade

Policy InstrumentFree Trade Agreement

DescriptionFTA in force from August 15; Colombian import tariffs on Canadian beef reduced to zero over a 12 year period with set amounts of tariff rate duty free quotas growing over that period; duties on Canadian pork phased out over 13 years; set amounts of tariff rate quotas start at 20 percent duty and phase out to zero within the tariff rate quota in five years.