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United States: House Ag Committee to repeal COOL requirements for beef, pork, and chicken

This bipartisan bill that will effectively repeal country of origin labeling requirements for beef, pork, and chicken, while leaving intact the requirements for all other covered commodities.

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Mexico foresees an increase in pork exports

It is estimated that in 2015, the foreign sales of processed pork will reach 114 tonnes.

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France: increase in pig slaughterings

During the first trimester of 2015, a total of 6,175,886 pigs have been slaughtered. This entails an increase by 2.4%.

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Statement by Canada and Mexico on U.S. Country of Origin Labelling

WTO has confirmed Canada and Mexico’s long-standing position that the United States’ mandatory COOL requirements for beef and pork are blatantly protectionist.

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Good News and Big Changes Coming in the US

Big news in US as Seaboard and Triumph Foods announce plans to build and operate a large-scale packing plant in Sioux City. One of the things which this move signals is the further coordination of the production sector with consumer demand.

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Canada continues to grow agri-food and seafood exports around the world

Canada’s top exports in 2014 were wheat, canola seed, fish and seafood, pork, canola oil, pulses, soybeans and beef.

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Philippines: agriculture grew by 1.78 percent in the first quarter of 2015

Hog output expanded by 3.77 percent.

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Russia lifted duties on wheat exports

The Russian Government lifted duties on wheat exports beginning May 15, 2015.

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Ireland: opening of the new Young Farmer Capital Investment Scheme

The specific areas of investment will include animal housing, slurry storage, dairy equipment, specialised slurry spreading equipment, animal welfare & farm safety, and specialised pig & poultry investments.

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Croatia: a large pork importer

Croatia is a large pork importer, and in 2014, imports reached $236 million (79,447 MT), mainly from the EU.

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Spain: increase in production in the Food and Beverages Industry

The production of the food and beverages sector has increased by 3.8% in 2014, and this translates into €93,238 million.

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Vietnam: large increase in imports of European meat

The volume of pork, beef and poultry imported by China has surged to 6,000 tons.

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FAO predicts world food import bill to fall to five-year low

"The world food import bill is forecast to reach a five-year low in 2015", the report says, mainly driven by a decline in international prices, low freight rates and a strong US dollar.

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European Union: Private Storage Aid for Pigmeat may be requested until today, May 8

The deadline for submitting applications for private storage aid for pigmeat under Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/360 will be today, May 8, 2015.

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FAO: Pigmeat production to grow in all regions

World production of pigmeat is anticipated to grow by 1.9 percent to 119.4 million tonnes in 2015.

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Spain: priority markets for the export of food and beverages

China and Hong Kong, along with Southeast Asia, USA, UK and Japan top a list of twenty countries shortlisted by the Spanish Food and Drink Industry Federation (FIAB), based on their potential and strategic interest.