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The Government of Belarus has laid down the rules for allocating tariff quotas for pork import in 2010. The relevant resolution has been adopted by the Council of Ministers.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Tuesday announced the allocation of $234.5 million to 70 U.S. trade organizations to help promote American food and agricultural products overseas.

President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner headed an act in which she announced the setting in motion of compensations to boost the pork production in the country that shall have also a reduction in the consumers' price.

The Russian Federation has agreed to allow Irish pork imports again 14 months after they were banned because of the dioxin crisis.

Mexico's agricultural agency, SAGARPA, will delay until March 15 the implementation of new inspection procedures for U.S. meat products entering Mexico in combo bins.

COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 37/2010 of 22 December 2009 on pharmacologically active substances and their classification regarding maximum residue limits in foodstuffs of animal origin.

The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Brendan Smith TD, today published the report of the Inter-Agency Review Group, chaired by Dr Patrick Wall, Associate Professor of Public Health at UCD established to examine the dioxin contamination incident, which occurred at the end of 2008.

EU Member States just gave the green light for the Commission to pursue negotiations towards free trade agreements (FTAs) with individual countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

The latest preliminary figures for meat consumption in Holland, published by PVE, show a general increase.

Beef production in Vietnam posted the highest growth in 2009 followed by poultry and pork, official statistics showed.

In 2009, Brazilian exports of pig meat reached 607.49 thousand tons, which is an increase of 14.75% in volume compared to the same period of the previous year, although the value dropped by 17.09%.

Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan established a customs union in early December to simplify trade among them. A single set of customs tariffs goes into effect January 1, 2010.

All the national and international economic indicators lead us to expect a recovery in 2010. The swine sector predicts a growth of 9% in production and 14% in exports in 2010 and a recovery in national consumption.

Conditions imposed for the import of pork and pork-based products will be relaxed to ensure sufficient supply of the meat for the upcoming Chinese New Year.

The gross production value in the livestock, meat and egg sector rose sharply last year. The 9% increase amounted to almost € 5.6 billion. This increase can mainly be attributed to the pig sector, where the price levels were higher than in 2007.

The Food Standards Agency has published new research about country of origin labelling. The Agency commissioned a package of research to find out more about how people understand and use food labels, including ‘country of origin’ labels. The results will both improve the information we have on this subject and also help to inform discussions about a European proposal on food labelling.