Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether meat imports tonnage restrictions included in the trade deals with Australia and New Zealand are based on carcass or deboned weight.

All UK meat imports under the UK-Australia deal will be measured in product weight – this is the weight of the final shipped product and is irrespective of the type of cut (meaning it could be a carcass or deboned).

For the New Zealand FTA, all meat imports except for sheep meat will also be measured in product weight. Imports of sheep meat will be measured using carcass weight equivalent. This means sheep meat products will be measured in terms of the whole carcass, rather than the final deboned cut of meat (i.e. the final shipped product weight).