AreaJapan

Commodity GroupMeat

CommodityAll

Date01/05/2019

Policy CategoryTrade

Policy InstrumentTariff rate quota

DescriptionAnnounced the safeguard (SG) trigger levels for bovine and pig meat for the fourth quarter of Japanese fiscal year 2019 (January 2020–March 2020). The bovine meat SG trigger is set at 117 percent of the previous year’s trade, while the pig meat SG trigger level is set at 119 percent of the average of the three previous years of trade.