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The current fixed rate per-kilogram tariff will change to a varying percentages tariff system depending on the amount of meat products and cheeses to be imported.

China has recently been importing over 0.4 million tonnes of pork per year, in a world market with trade of less than 7 million tonnes per year.

Pig meat production, on top of higher feed costs, would also be affected by the new animal welfare rules mandatory from January 2013, and would decline by -3.2% in 2013.

The import of live pigs from Italy in the first half of 2012 was characterized by an overall decrease of 13.3% compared to 2011.

China's pork production in 2013 is forecast to rise about two percent to 52.65 MMT.

Pork exports to third countries increased by 2.6% over the same period last year, reaching 1,520,802 tons.

In Q2 2012 the total meat production amounted to 115 113 tonnes (-6.8%), of which 16 379 tonnes (-9.1%) were beef and veal, 59 849 tonnes (-11.1%) were pigmeat.

Output, prices and export values rose by 9%, 12% and 18% respectively.

The Czech veterinary services are required to fulfill health and welfare guarantees according to the current veterinary certificate when laboratory tests of animals for brucellosis are negative.

The agreement states that the certificates can be managed with the use of the Advanced Electronic Signature through the Mexican Foreign Trade Digital Window.

This accession is particularly important for the EU, as the EU is Russia's first trading partner and Russia is the EU's third trading partner. For the first time both entities will be bound by multilateral rules and obligations for their mutual trade.

Between January and May 2012 exports of pork from the European Union amounted to a total of 1,285,605 tons.

Despite a decline in pig population by 1.7% (-3.2% for sows), the EU pig meat production is expected to remain stable in 2012 and then to decline by 2% the following year.

Inventory of frozen pork is down about 18.8% from last year.

WTO confirmed that the United States Country-of-Origin Labelling (COOL) measure discriminates against Canadian livestock and is inconsistent with the WTO trade obligations of the United States.

The study found that the economic development associated with hog production and exporting pork contributes $9.28 billion to the Canadian economy.