Current Agriculture, Food & Resource Issues
D. Surprenant and J.-P. Gervais
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Endnotes
1 The authors wish to thank Robert Saint-Louis, Robert Romain, two anonymous referees,
and an associate editor for providing helpful comments on an earlier draft of the paper.
The usual caveat about remaining errors applies. The authors gratefully acknowledge the
financial support of Agriculture and Agri-food Canada (AAFC). The opinions expressed
by the authors do not necessarily reflect those of AAFC. Senior authorship is shared
equally between the two authors.
2 Chicken products on the ICL include live chickens (all weights), eviscerated (whole or
cut-up) chicken (fresh, chilled, and frozen), eviscerated, cooked or processed chicken, and
(eviscerated) smoked or dried chicken products.
3 These imported chicken products are used as inputs in the production of chicken meals
and can be counted in the TRQ. The objective of this allocation procedure is to increase
the competitiveness of further processors in marketing chicken products not included in
the ICL. However, during the period 1995 to 2000, special import permits were delivered
to importers producing chicken products not on the ICL and were not taxed at the over-
quota tariff and not counted in the TRQ. This explains why the actual quantity of
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