Page 33 of articles about imports in Swine news

An inspection should be carried out within two months at the Lithuanian and Polish plants producing animal products and willing to export them to the CU countries.

This will allow the importation of 20,000 Tm of meat of domestic swine (fresh, chilled or frozen), and of 20,000 Tm of meat of domestic swine (fresh, chilled or frozen, excluding hams, loins and boneless cuts) without tariffs.

Rosselkhoznadzor detected a serious violation of the CU and Russian requirements committed during export of RTE meat products.

Malaysia’s pork production is forecast to remain relatively stable at about 235,000 tons in 2014.

China, the world's largest consumer of pork, has asked the USDA to conduct testing and provide certification that live hogs come from herds that are free of porcine epidemic diarrhea, or PED, virus.

The agreement opens many possibilities for the Polish meat producers.

Mexican beef and pork production forecasts are slightly higher in 2014.

Post revised 2014 hog production to increase by 1.5 percent as a function of higher pork exports and a small increase in domestic demand.

During the committee, punctual agreements were established in order to make progress in the importation of animals and genetic material of the swine and ovine species.

The price increase has been caused because pork suppliers are expecting prices to increase as the result of an outbreak of porcine epidemic diarrhea from October last year.

For the other products (cereals, pork, beef, poultry and a handful of additional products) a partial liberalisation is achieved by the granting of duty-free tariff rate quotas (TRQs).

The time frame for starting deliveries will be determined after additional guarantees.

During the Talks the European experts suggested a plan of regionalization of the EU territory which is limited to isolation of 6 Lithuanian regions and several Polish provinces situated at the border with the Republic of Belarus.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper today announced that Canada and the Republic of Korea have concluded negotiations for a bilateral free trade agreement.

Switzerland forbids the importation of live pigs, and of swine semen, ova and embryos, as well as of wild boar meat.

According to USDA'S Global Agriculture Information Network (GAIN), China’s 2014 pork production will continue its growth trend by rising two percent to 55.8 million tons.