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A Commission move to introduce Private Storage Aid for pigmeat in order to ease pressure on  the EU pigmeat market has been voted on by Member States in the [Management] Committee.

According to the ranking generated by the system, China ranked first, with a sum of 22,070 million dollars, of which 17,010 million come from its main component, soya bean.

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) and the Pacific Maritime Association (PMA) reached a tentative contract last Friday.

European Agriculture Commissioner, Phil Hogan, will propose the opening of a measure of private storage for pork products.

With a production of 5.5 million tonnes, corresponding to 25% of the EU total, Germany was in 2013 the main producer of pig meat in the EU, followed by Spain (3.4 mn t or 16%).

Export value for both U.S. beef and pork reached new heights in 2014, posting double-digit gains over the previous year’s totals.

The document reflects the harmonization of the terminology used for wholesale cuts of meat between Canada and the United States (U.S).

The list of Spanish establishments approved to export beef and/or pork products to the United States has been expanded.

The resolution urges the Commission to follow up its 2013 report with legislative proposals to make it mandatory to state the country of origin of meat used in processed foods.

The lower tariff will be applied to the quota Japan plans to set based on the current level of pork imported from the United States.

Abreu wants Brazilian beef, chicken and pork parts that are certified by Brazil's sanitary regulators sent to China without having to be certified by the Asian country's inspectors.

Wheat, soy oil, pork among main drivers, helped by weaker euro and lower oil prices.

Slowdowns by dock workers at the ports in Long Beach, Los Angeles and Oakland, Calif., and in Seattle and Tacoma, Wash., have stranded thousands of containers of pork and other farm products over the past several months.

Rosselkhoznadzor had decided to impose temporary restrictions on imports of pork, pig products and breeder pigs.

According to data by Korea Agro-Fisheries & Food Trade Corporation and the farm ministry exports of fresh pork plunging 35.6 percent on-year.

The new figures show that, while Russia imported 542,800 tonnes of pork between January and November 2013, for the same period in 2014 this dropped by over 200,000 tonnes.