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The previously imposed restrictions on imports of slaughter pigs and feeding piglets are still in force.

The total pig meat exportations during the first six months of 2013 have fallen by 1% with respect to the same period of year 2012, reaching 1,481,109 tons.

It decreased in all categories, year-on-year: by 2.3% in beef, by 1.4% in pigmeat, and by 5.0% in poultrymeat.

The Federal Veterinary and Phytosanitary Inspection Service announced Friday that it was temporarily restricting pork imports from Belarus.

Net farm income is forecast to be $120.6 billion in 2013, up 6 percent from 2012’s estimate of $113.8 billion. After adjusting for inflation, 2013’s net farm income is expected to be the second highest since 1973.

A new boost for the production recovery: State, regions, food and agriculture companies, and representatives of the workers have signed the Food Chain Contract.

Trade barriers between the EU and Colombia will be lifted as of 1 August 2013, when a comprehensive and far-reaching trade deal enters into application.

In the European Union, the situation is forecast to remain difficult, with continuing pressure on consumer demand hampering market recovery despite lower supply and rising exports.

Smithfield Foods announced that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States has notified the parties that it will conduct a second-phase.

The European Union and Georgia successfully concluded negotiations for a Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA).

The agreement focuses on two items with a paramount importance: The establishment of the reference carcass weight and the improvement in the implementation of the carcass classification system.

During the first six months of 2013, Brazil has exported a total of 240,515 tonnes, which implies a decrease by 10.52%.

Despite difficulties in the domestic livestock sector, the number of pigs rose 1.08% to 26.9 million.

Hong Kong’s 2014 pork market is forecast to be comparable to 2013 following some disruptions in 2011 and 2012 caused by high pork prices in China.

The Subcommittee, which is part of the National Advisory Food and Agriculture Standardization Committee pertaining to the SAGARPA (Secretariat of Agriculture, Stockbreeding, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food,) will be in charge of designing and revising the food and agriculture regulations regarding stockbreeding.

Four establishments situated in Kaliningrad oblast got the right to export finished beef, pork and poultry meat to the EU countries.