§ Mr. Charles Irvingasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether the system of subsidies and levies in operation in the European Economic Community means that carcase meat is subject to a levy and the exporter of live food animals receives a subsidy.
§ Mr. Buchanan-SmithCarcase meat imported into the European Community is generally subject to an import charge. For beef this takes the form of an ad valorem duty plus a variable levy, although almost all imported beef enters the Community under concessionary arrangements. For pigmeat a basic levy, representing the difference between world and Community prices for cereal feeding stuffs, is charged and for sheepmeat there is an ad valorem tariff.
Subsidies are available for the export of live cattle and pigs to non-Member countries as they are also for beef and pigmeat.