US, Guatemala Agree on Market Access for US Chicken Legs
Guatemala will accelerate tariff elimination on exports of fresh, frozen and chilled chicken leg quarters, after officials from the nations negotiated since February on the matter, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative said (here). U.S. poultry exports would have…
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faced a 12.5 percent tariff in Guatemala without the agreement, USTR said. From now through Dec. 31, 2021, Guatemala will allow imports of 1,000 metric tons of processed chicken leg quarters to enter duty-free annually under a tariff-rate quota. The TRQ and all tariffs will be eliminated on Jan. 1, 2022. Chicken leg quarters composed $82 million, or approximately 8 percent, of the U.S.’s more than $1.1 billion in agricultural exports to Guatemala last year, and U.S. poultry exporters had a 98 percent market share of all imports of chicken leg quarters into Guatemala in 2016, USTR said.