Ms Truss has hit back after a week where the British agriculture sector has been warning that livestock farming in Britain could be wiped out by an australia deal. They are concerned that tariff free trade with Australia and NewZealand will mean the UK market will be flooded by lamb and beef because farms in the Antipodean countries are much larger making food production cheaper. But sources close to Ms Truss have pointed out that the Australia deal along with the one signed recently with Japan is the gateway to joining Comprehensive and Progressive Trans Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) which currently accounts for 13 percent of global markets and could also ensure a trade deal with the US.
The CPTPP gives Britain tariff free market access to 11 nations with Asian countries increasing their demand for British produced meat.
It is estimated that the growing middle class in the Asia-Pacific region is expected to drive a nearly 1.5 percent annual increase per capita consumption of meat in the next decade.
Ms Truss has been a champion of the British agriculture sector sisting the Japanese…
