Question follow-through · 18833
EU External Trade: South America
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the trade agreement between the EU and Mercusor on (a) food producers and (b) farmers in Northern Ireland.
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- Answering body
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Tabled
- 9 Dec 2024
- Target answer date
- 12 Dec 2024
- Answer
- 17 Dec 2024 · 8 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
9 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential impact of the trade agreement between the EU and Mercusor on (a) food producers and (b) farmers in Northern Ireland.
12 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
17 Dec 2024
Answer published
The department has not made an assessment of the trade agreement between the EU and Mercusor. The department continuously monitors agri-food markets through the UK Agriculture Market Monitoring Group.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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