meatingplace.com – Tuesday – January 20, 2009 

Peruvian trade agreement lacks benefit for U.S.: R-CALF 

By Lisa M. Keefe 

Former President George W. Bush signed the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement shortly before leaving office even though it lacks any benefits for the U.S. live cattle industry, according to the Ranchers-Cattlemen Action Legal Fund, United Stockgrowers of America (R-CALF USA).

Peru negotiated a safeguard for its imports of U.S. beef, but the United States did not get reciprocal safeguards on its imports of beef from Peru, the organization said in a statement. In fact, R-CALF expressed concern that the Peru FTA was worded in such a way that it would grant preferential access to Peruvian beef products, even if they are produced from cattle shipped into Peru from elsewhere, including Brazil.

"[The agreement] greatly expands the potential supply of cattle that could be slaughtered and exported to the United States," said R-CALF Region IV director Jay Platt, who also chairs the group's trade committee.

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