Wool producers demand changes in draft Australia-EU free trade agreement

Vernon Graham
Updated July 9 2019 - 4:32pm, first published 4:30pm
CHALK and CHEESE: WoolProducers Australia says vast differences exist in husbandry practices between Australia and the European Union which can't be aligned in any free trade agreement between the two trading partners.
CHALK and CHEESE: WoolProducers Australia says vast differences exist in husbandry practices between Australia and the European Union which can't be aligned in any free trade agreement between the two trading partners.

Australia's peak woolgrowers body doesn't want producers bound to European Union rules on animal welfare or antimicrobial resistance in any final Australia-European Union Free Trade Agreement.

Vernon Graham

Vernon Graham

National machinery and property writer

Former editor of The Land, former Fairfax Media Agricultural Editor

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