The UK has been accepted into the CPTPP, which includes Malaysia where much of the world's palm oil is produced and where orangutans' habitats are destroyed to produce the material used in half of supermarket products.
Concerns had been raised ahead of the deal by environmental campaigners concerned that cutting palm oil tariffs would be an incentive for further destruction of forests where critically endangered orangutans live on the island of Borneo that is partly owned by Malaysia.
"Palm oil is still a major driver of deforestation in climate critical forests across Malaysia, Indonesia and Papua so cutting palm oil tariffs will only incentivise further destruction. Between 1,000 and 5,000 orangutans are killed each year to protect the crops, the Orangutan Foundation International said.
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