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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has agreed to lift restrictions on imports of some fresh and frozen pork from Poland that were put in place October 18, 2018 due to potential risk from African Swine Fever (ASF).

The FAS foresees an increase in the US production of pork for next year.

Pork export value averaged $44.29 per head slaughtered in August, down 8 percent from a year ago, while the January-August per-head average dropped 1 percent.

USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has suspended entry of imports of fresh and frozen pork and pork products from Poland while it completes a review of that country’s export protocols.

In the next 10 years, Mexico could produce almost 3 million tonnes of pork: twice the current production.

Global pork trade could face significant shift in trade flows in the second half of 2018, due to trade tensions and the possible impact of African swine fever.

The president of the SENASA and Chinese Customs public servants made progress regarding the negotiations for the opening of markets for pork.

Some of the EU’s trade partners do not recognise the regionalisation principle and 13 countries have suspended pork imports from Belgium.

So far, the main pork supplier to India has been Belgium.

New draft rules to better protect farmers against buyers’ unfair trading practices were approved by the Agriculture Committee.

On September 30, 2018, the United States, Mexico and Canada announced the completion of negotiations toward a new United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).

On Sept. 24, the revised Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS) was signed by President Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in. Under KORUS, most U.S. pork products now enter Korea duty-free.

Nine countries have cancelled their Belgian pork imports aftter the detection of five African swine fever positive cases in wild boars.