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The CPC sees important potential benefits from a TPP agreement, including: providing Canada the means of securing, or even enhancing, its terms of trade with existing TPP participants.

Japan’s total 2013 domestic slaughter and national pork output are projected down by less than one percent to 16.4 million head.

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.

The grain-intensive pig and poultry sectors recorded particularly strong gains, increasing by 6 percent and 2 percent respectively.

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.

Rabobank predicts a further 2 percent decline in pork production in 2014.

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.

Frozen pork supplies were up 6 percent from the previous month and up 31 percent from last year.

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.

Leading the field is once again the pork and beef slaughterer Tönnies from Rheda-Wiedenbrück.

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

In an effort to promote product safety, China plans to spend 72.02 billion yuan (11.35 billion U.S. dollars) during the 2011-2015 period on improving a quality inspection system for farm produce.

As fixing a MRL is considered as setting a threshold under which the use the product is considered as safe, the new standard fixed by the Codex can be considered de facto as an authorisation of using ractopamine below the fixed MRL in food producing animals.