This doesn’t mean Spocko is correct, since there has to be a finding that the food inspections systems of other countries are “equivalent” in order for their products to be admitted without additional US inspections. In the report you link to it notes that only 5 countries are deemed US equivalents for poultry-importation purposes. Spocko, consistent with his anti-China fear mongering, instead says this: [quote=“Spocko, post:8, topic:16451”]
So say for example that you are a shrimper in Louisiana and Vietnam starts shipping more shrimp to the US under the TPP. Under the TPP food safety guidelines, as long as the Shrimp meet VIETNAM’s food safety regulations the US has to accept it as safe. Now China can use a Vietnamese companies as cut out to ship farmed shrimp via Vietnam, and we all know how great China’s food safety regs are.
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Now, it seems pretty unlikely that either Vietnam or China will be deemed “equivalent” for seafood purposes, especially since “we all know how great China’s food safety regs are.”
Are there so few real problems with the TPP that he has to manufacture highly unlikley scenarios? It’s a great way to have your argument marginalized by those that are not already converted.
