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Originally Posted by Hugh
You appear to have accidently missed out the preceding lines in your quote...
You would have thought the people who actually make and sell the pork pies would be believed...
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He doesn't make ALL pork pies. A company DID complain about problems exporting pork pies to the US, and used Thailand and Iceland as 2 of their 4 examples of countries that didn't have those problems. Thailand and Iceland weren't plucked out of the air.
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But Walker and Son was reportedly used as an example in a 2015 briefing document from the British-American Business Group, during the TTIP negotiations. It is understood that a small number of pies were sent to Iceland and Thailand as part of a trial in 2015, but Walker and Son have not exported pies to either country for at least a couple of years.
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In response to Mr O'Callaghan, No 10 said the PM was correct when he said that Melton Mowbray pork pies are exported to Thailand and Iceland.
His remarks, it added, were based on a briefing note from the Department for International Trade, which said the company Walker & Sons exports small shipments to Iceland, Thailand, Singapore and the Caribbean.
It said the information came from a document produced by Walker & Son.
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It's in this
presentation document from 2015 in connection with TTIP. They only started exporting in August 2014.