Trade negotiations between Australia and Europe over market access for meat products and naming right protections have collapsed, with talks unlikely to resume before the next term of government.
Trade negotiations between Australia and Europe over market access for meat products and naming right protections are unlikely to resume before the next term of government after talks collapsed overnight.on the sidelines of trade minister G7 meetings in Japan before formal negotiations between Trade Minister Don Farrell and the EU’s Valdis Dombrovskis could start on Monday.
“We’ve been utterly consistent throughout this process that we would only enter a free trade agreement with the EU if it was in Australia’s national interest, and in particular, if it offered new, commercially meaningful access to the European market for Australian agriculture, and that hasn’t happened,” he said.
“In future, it may be that we can resume negotiations, but I think that will be some time away,” Watt said.
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