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The Board of EEC took a decision to exclude fresh, chilled or refrigerated pork, poultry meat and edible byproducts from the List of goods originated and imported from developing and least developed nations.

With pig slaughtering declining by over 1m head during 2012 (from 20.4m to 18.9m), it was no surprise to see a decline in exports of Danish pig meat over the year.

It appears the seasonal trends in the pork market in the Northern Hemisphere are reversing with strong export demand and high prices in the second half of the year.

Japan is the twelfth destination of the Spanish pork exports, with more than 28,000 tons, and it is placed in the eighth place in terms of the value.

Total pig numbers are now forecast to finish the year at 2.25 million head.

Russia reduces the list of Canadian suppliers to 14 pork processing plants, 3 beef processing plants and one plant producing both beef and pork products.

United States inventory of all hogs and pigs on March 1, 2013 was 65.9 million head.

The Chinese government has started to purchase frozen pork and add it to reserves to stabilize prices.

The department will impede the importation into Belarus of live pigs, pork and processed products, among others, coming from Northern Ossetia and Krasnodar.

For the exportation of pigs for reproductive purposes, the protocol signed by these two countries establishes that the animals must come from farms registered with the ICA.

Corn growers intend to plant 97.3 million acres . If realized, this will represent the highest planted acreage in the United States since 1936.

Ukraine from March 20, 2013 introduced a temporary ban on imports of pork from Brazil due to systemic establishment of a lack of correspondence of safety indicators of pork.

Officially, last week the first shipment of pork left from Jalisco to Japan: a total amount of 20 tons of pig meat.

FAS/Moscow forecasts 2013 beginning stocks of swine to increase by 8 percent over past estimates as result of an increase in year-end Rosstat inventory statistics.

The Spanish exports of cured hams and shoulders ended year 2012 with an increase by 8.7% with respect to year 2011.

Rosselkhoznadzor considered it necessary to impose temporary restrictions on import of chilled beef, pork and poultry meat from the Netherlands to Russia from the 29th of March.