‘N.Z. expects cut in lamb export limits’
NZPA staff correspondent London A Conservative British member of Parliament said at the European Parliament on Monday that New Zealand seemed resigned to a reduction in lamb export quotas. The Scottish M.P., Mr Alasdair Hutton, who was in New Zealand late last year with a delegation from the Strasbourg Parliament, said that despite his support for Wellington’s position, he believed New Zealand would have to accept quota reductions. “When I was in New Zealand a couple of months ago I got the feeling there is a resigned acceptance of the fact that quotas will have to
go down,” he said. A voluntary agreement restricts New Zealand’s exports to Europe to 245,000 tonnes of sheepmeat each year. The Parliament is this week examining agriculture policy and New Zealand diplomats have travelled from Brussels to the French forum to watch developments. One New Zealand official said: “The whole question of sheepmeat has been put very much on the front burner,” but added that quota cuts had only been “initial suggestions.” The Parliament has little actual power to alter quotas, but it could influence European bureaucrats and Ministers.
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