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Slowdowns by dock workers at the ports in Long Beach, Los Angeles and Oakland, Calif., and in Seattle and Tacoma, Wash., have stranded thousands of containers of pork and other farm products over the past several months.

According to data by Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corporation and the farm ministry exports of fresh pork plunging 35.6 percent on-year.

The objective of this high level meeting was to explore ways to strengthen the existing cooperation between the two organisations.

During the first 9 months of 2014, a total of 309,000 tonnes of meat were exported (with a total value of USD654 million), and 62% of them were pork.

The president of the Council recalled that "the Russian ban must be dealt with by the EU as a whole and that a differentiated treatment of Member States is unacceptable".

Prime Minister Medvedev said at the meeting that Russia had a splendid harvest this year, and that exports had risen considerably, so the country needed a reserve.

The Finnish meat industry is authorized to export pork to China, the country's Agriculture Ministry confirmed on Friday.

Last year, 2014, the estimated value of agricultural exports from the Netherlands amounted to 80.7 billion euros, representing a slight increase over the previous year.

Both parties reached heads of agreement for the resumption of the French exports of live pigs, and pig's offal and fat to Russia.

Meat from cattle, sheep, swine, and goats slaughtered in Lithuania, or parts or other products thereof, processed in certified Lithuanian establishments, would be eligible for export to the United States.

The strongest performers in terms of export growth were prepared foods, dairy, seafood, poultry, pigmeat and edible horticulture.

The assigned quota was 2,200 tonnes. The amount requested during the opening on January 2nd was 2,678 tonnes.

The passengers of international flights that arrive in Colombia will be able to bring shoulders and hams (cooked or cured bone-in) from Spain.

The eight EU textual proposals cover competition, food safety and animal and plant health, customs issues, technical barriers to trade, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)...

Mexico is the tenth largest producer of pork, with an annual output of 1.2 million tons.

This re-opening of the market is a welcome first step to abolish the disproportionate and unjustified US ban that followed the BSE crisis of the 1990's.