The European Union's main trading partners in the WTO are opposed to the apportionment of its tariff rate quotas with the United Kingdom.
This system, which concerns 196 individual concessions covering more than 365 tariff lines, is based on the respective share of quota utilisation by both parties (see EUROPE 12130).
However, more than 20 WTO members said they were harmed by this distribution key at a meeting of the Council for Trade in Goods on Monday 12 November in Geneva.