Here won Chile, here won Chilean agriculture, last year Chilean agriculture grew by 5.8%, the food sector exported US $ 24 billion and we generated one million jobs and that is thanks to the 26 free trade agreements that Chile has and now one more is added. All this is opening doors, opening markets for Chilean agriculture. Chile does not have a domestic market, it does not have a local market, it has the world as a big market “, so the Minister of Agriculture celebrated the approval by the Chamber of Deputies of the Trans-Pacific Economic Cooperation Agreement, TPP11.
The Agriculture Authority stressed that, “here are opened 3 thousand new business opportunities, for example, Japan, its tariff reduction in the TPP is very important for many Chilean agricultural products that arrived in Japan with 25% of tariffs that today they will do with 0% In addition, with this TPP we are diversifying the destinations of exports. Not only can we concentrate on China and the United States, Southeast Asia is a very important market that demands other qualities of agricultural products. ”
For his part, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Roberto Ampuero, thanked the parliamentarians because, with this vote, “Chile shows a coherent policy and shows that its conviction remains intact in terms of developing free trade agreements, linking with the world, expand markets and base their development on free trade. During the last decades we have seen how Chile has prospered, precisely thanks to this tool, to be a country open to the world “.
Minister Walker also thanked the parliamentarians of both blocs because the approval of this agreement puts Chile in line with the other nations. “We have seen that our competitors such as Australia or New Zealand joined this free trade agreement in December, agricultural production in the southern hemisphere has been greatly expanded and we have to compete with countries such as Peru or Australia that are taking great pride in these treated and Chile was losing advantages because they already adhered and we did not. “
