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April pork exports set a new volume record, fueled by tremendous demand in Mexico.

With an agri-food trade value of €255 billion in 2017, the EU confirms for yet another year its position as largest global exporter and importer of agri-food products.

The meeting was useful for making an assessment at a sectorial level and for analysing the main aspects to be improved for the opening of new markets for the local pig production and industry.

Pork production has increased during the first trimester of 2018, according to the data provided by the MAPAMA.

The sector expects the activity to reassume its normal levels in 60 days.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Rural Development, Fisheries and Food (SAGARPA) issued a statement to the Mexican meat producers so as to think of other pork suppliers because of the tariffs that the Mexican government could impose to the USA products.

Mexico will impose equivalent measures to several products in the face of the USA protectionist measures regarding steel and aluminium.

For the next long-term EU budget 2021-2027, the Commission is proposing to modernise and simplify the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP).

This is the result of herd reduction in the past year.

Due to the situation of ASF in Romania and the EU, Russia has forbidden the entry of Romanian pork and pork products.

Argentina has received the official international recognition as a Classical Swine Fever (CSF)-free country by the World Organisation for Animal Health (WOAH/OIE).

The new rules, which came into force this week, will allow data from the EU's Copernicus Sentinel satellites and other Earth observation data to be used as evidence when checking farmers' fulfilment of requirements under the CAP.

Pursuing new market opportunities in China is vital to the continued growth of the Canadian economy, and to reaching the Government of Canada's target of increasing global agricultural exports to $75 billion by 2025.