Australia's biggest customer pressured to give kangaroo products the boot

Published 2022년 3월 14일

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The Netherlands is urging the European Union (EU) to ban Australian kangaroo products as free trade talks with Australia commence. The EU is the largest market for Australian kangaroo meat and leather, valued at about $130 million annually. The industry, which employs around 3000 people and exports to over 60 markets, is worth about $200 million annually. The Dutch Government is being lobbied by animal rights groups to ban commercial harvesting of wild species. A petition with nearly 50,000 signatures has been made to the EU representatives to enact a ban on Australia kangaroo products. The Australian government is negotiating a trade agreement to remove trade barriers, not additional restrictions on exporters.

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Australia's biggest export market for kangaroos has the jitters. There is a big push from the Netherlands for the European Union to give Aussie roo products the boot now free trade talks have begun. The EU is our biggest market for kangaroo meat and leather worth about $130 million annually. Traditionally the light and strong kangaroo leather has been highly valued by sporting apparel companies. Kangaroo products are exported to more than 60 overseas markets and is worth about $200 million annually, in an industry employing about 3000 people. Europe is the biggest buyer of Australian product with the US a long way back in second. The EU and Australia are in the early stages of brokering a free trade agreement. Kangaroo's lean meat is prized in restaurants across the world and the strong, supple kangaroo leather is in high demand for sports shoe makers. About two million kangaroos are harvested in Australia each year depending in state quotas, from a total population estimated to ...

Source: Farmweekly