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971006 US Mulling Action Against Philippines In Pork Spat

October 1, 1997

WASHINGTON - The Clinton Administration is mulling whether to revoke special trade privileges for the Philippines becaue of that country's failure to provide market access for U.S. pork, a top government official said Wednesday.

"We're looking very seriously at" revoking the Philippines duty-free acess to the U.S. market under the General System of Preferences, U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky told reporters after a speech to the Commodity Club.

The Philippines committed in the 1995 Uruguay Round World Trade Pact to open its market to pork and poultry imports. But it has failed to live up to that agreement by administering quotas for those products in such a way that imports do not occur.

The National Pork Producers Council has urged the Clinton Administration to revoke the Philippines special trade benefits to put pressure on the country to comply with its Uruguay Round committments.

In her speech, Barshefsky singled out the Philippines as one country that has used administrative procedures to sidetrack its trade pact committments.

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