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According to Resolution no. 003 of May 3rd, 2019, published in the Official Gazette, the Panamanian government ordered “to start researching towards the possible enforcement of safeguard measures regarding fresh, refrigerated and frozen pork; whole or half carcasses, boneless or bone-in, fit for human consumption, requested by the National Pork Producers' Association of Panama (ANAPOR)”, according to the information published by the Ministry of Agriculture of Spain in its Foreign News Gazette.
According to a statament made by the World Trade Organisation (WTO),
on May 14th, 2019, Panama notified the WTO's Safeguards Committee that it had decided to start, on May 3rd, 2019, an enquiry concerning safeguards regarding certain fresh, refrigerated or frozen pork cuts.
Over the course of an enquiry of this kind, the idea is to establish if the increase in imports of a product has caused o can cause a serious damage on the national production and, if applicable, restrict those purchases temporarily. Concerning the enquiry, importers, exporters and the interested parties can provide evidence and answer the other parties' questions.
According to the request, the imports that have been asked to be studied are the ones coming from the USA, Spain, Colombia and Costa Rica.
Thursday, May 23rd, 2019/ Foreign News-MAPA/ Spain.
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