{"id":4182,"date":"2012-01-27T12:01:28","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T17:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/?p=4182"},"modified":"2012-01-27T12:01:28","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T17:01:28","slug":"fta-impacts-panama-ag-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/fta-impacts-panama-ag-business\/","title":{"rendered":"FTA impacts Panama Ag Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/chickens.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4183\" title=\"chickens\" src=\"http:\/\/panamaadvisoryinternationalgroup.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/chickens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While the FTA provides for a gradual tariff reduction for chicken imported from the US, it dose pose a threat to the poultry industry in Panama.<\/p>\n<p>Currently tariffs on imports of <a title=\"chicken meat export\" href=\"http:\/\/www.centralamericadata.com\/en\/search?q1=content_en_le:%22chicken+meat+export%22&amp;q2=mattersInCountry_es_le:%22Panama%22\">chicken meat<\/a> is 260%-  for chicken thighs and drumsticks. This protection for local  industry will gradually disappear, according to provisions by the Trade  Promotion Agreement signed with the northern country.<\/p>\n<p>An article in Prensa.com, reports that &#8220;When the agreement comes into  force, which could be in 2013, depending on the adaptability of <a title=\"Panama\" href=\"http:\/\/www.centralamericadata.com\/en\/search?q1=content_en_le:%22Panama%22&amp;q2=mattersInCountry_es_le:%22Panama%22\">Panama<\/a>nian  law to the TPA- specific quantities of chicken meat may come into the  country without incurring tariffs. In the first year that the TPA is in  force, the quota is 660 metric tons of chicken quarters &#8211; thighs and  boned pieces, from the U.S. &#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Then, the duty free quota will increase year by year, until eventually  after 5 years of the TPA, there will be no limit. The same applies to  chicken wings, now also protected with a tariff of 260% &#8211; they will  enter Panama with zero tariffs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What has been negotiated is a challenge for local industry, because  Panamanians eat the whole chicken. The country is in fact one of the  biggest consumers of chicken in Latin America. The per capita  consumption of Panama (75.9 pounds) is second only to Venezuela (76.34  pounds) and Brazil (83.02 pounds), reports the Latin American Poultry  Association. &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centralamericadata.com\/en\/links\/follow\/2001727\" target=\"_blank\">Prensa.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the FTA provides for a gradual tariff reduction for chicken imported from the US, it dose pose<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[196],"class_list":["post-4182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-articles-panama-perpsective","tag-agriculture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FTA 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