In declarations to the TVN news channel, the president of the National Association of Pork Producers, Carlos Pitty, ruled out that the North Americans are going to give up anything, regardless of the government.

The future review will take place in the midst of the tariff reduction that, as of 2025, is advancing vertiginously in products such as pork, boneless beef, corn, fluid milk, rice and chicken, among others.

In 2026, he said, the tariff on pork and boneless beef, as well as corn and fluid milk, will fall to 0 percent, while the 130 percent protection on thigh meat and 45 percent on rice will reach 0 percentage in 2029 and 2031, respectively.

While the short lights of the producers are fixed on the fact that tariff relief is discussed primarily, for Pitty ‘not everything is tariffs’, because there are important issues that must be applied, such as labeling, sanitary standards that exist and are not met, the role of the customs observer and the defrosting of meat, among others.

In the opinion of Euclides Diaz, executive secretary of the National Cattlemen’s Association, the conversations should be aimed at avoiding unfair competition and as a consumer’s right to know what he is buying.

However, he acknowledged that ‘those who negotiate are the governments and we are still in the next room’, recalling the place assigned to them during the talks to implement the TPC.

He maintained that the fact that a clause for the revision of the agreements reached has been included in the text ‘does not mean that the treaty can be renegotiated.

Besides, I don’t see any product or service that the United States would be interested in protecting on our side, so there is nothing we can negotiate’, he remarked.

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