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Russia has stopped imports of pork from EU countries following an outbreak of African swine fever virus in Lithuania.

Rosselkhoznadzor informs about the imposition of temporary restrictions on the import of porcine products from the Lugansk Oblast, Ukraine, from January 17, 2014.

The exports of Chilean pig meat increased by 4%, in terms of amount, in year 2013 with respect to the previous year.

The European pig meat exportations have remained stable during the first nine months of year 2013, with a slight growth by 0.3%.

The slaughterings of pigs have dropped by 1.7% (and by 1.1% regarding weight) with respect to the same period during the previous year.

Vietnam's frozen meat imports in the first 10 months of this year increased four folds.

In the period between January and September this year, pork imports into Hong Kong fell by 6%.

Brazil exported 81,565 tonnes of pig meat in 1998, whilst in 2012 it exported 581,477 tonnes - an increase by more than 600%.

Vietnam’s imports of animal feed and raw material for animal feed production are estimated to touch USD 2.73 billion in the first 10 months of this year.

A lot of attention was paid to a possibility to expand imports of Russian poultry and pork products to Vietnam.

The Rosselkhoznadzor considered feasible to lift temporary restrictions imposed on pig and pork product movements from several pig farms and meat processing plants of the Minsk Oblast.

Canada will acquire a quota volume equivalent to over 80 thousand tonnes of pork cuts.

In the first six months of 2013, the number of pigs slaughtered was 1.1% lower than last year but thanks to a growth in average carcass weight, the production decreased by only 0.6%.

During the first 5 months of this year, the importation of live pigs of less and more than 50 kg liveweight has increased by 3.6% and 8%, respectively.

Canada's agriculture minister is pledging to continue the fight against U.S. Mandatory Country of Origin Labelling.