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EU producers will receive an increased budget of €133 million in 2017 to promote EU agricultural products outside and inside the EU and to continue finding new markets.

The meat will have to come from animals born and raised in the area of the country free of foot-and-mouth disease with vaccination and will have to be slaughtered in plants authorised by the national health body.

For January through September, export volume was 5 percent above last year’s pace at 1.66 million mt.

The rise in import volumes has slowed as the year progressed. Volumes for Q2 and Q3 were up only 6%, compared to the 20% increase in shipments seen at the start of the year.

Vietnamese consumer preferences for poultry and pork cuts are frequently different from those in Europe.

The Asian and South American markets are the most important destinations for the Brazilian fresh pork.

Both sides have now agreed on measures to simplify certification requirements for Hong Kong imports of meat from the EU.

In 2016, over €100 million from the EU budget is available to promote EU agri-food products in third countries and promote consumption outside and inside the EU.

They focused on norovirus, the hepatitis A virus and the hepatitis E virus, which are of great public health concern in the EU.

On transitional measures for the application of Regulation (EC) No 882/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the accreditation of official laboratories carrying out official testing for Trichinella.

Spain ranks as the fourth largest global exporter of pork, surpassed only by Germany, the United States and the Netherlands, with a revenue of more than €4,000 M..

Analysing the EU export performance over the last twelve months per product category, export values increased in particular for pig meat (€+1.2 billion; +31% compared to export values in the 12-months period one year ago).

In the first half of 2016, Spanish pork exports increased 26 percent valued also 14 percent more than the same period of previous year, with important Spanish pork export growths to China.