The United States and six other agricultural exporting countries – Canada, New Zealand, Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Thailand – warned at the end of September that they opposed the EU and the United Kingdom plan, post-Brexit, to share EU tariff rate quotas of agricultural goods allocated to WTO countries, based on historic averages.
“Such an outcome would not be consistent with the principle of leaving other WTO members no worse off, nor fully honour the existing tariff rate quotas...