International Trade

Poland's beef meat industry has seen exports up 3%

Poland’s poultry, beef exports expand in 2013

By Jaroslaw Adamowski

Polish meat industry players have posted improved export sales for last year. In 2013, local firms exported 699,000 tonnes (t) of poultry meat, up 9% compared with a year earlier, according to data from the state-run Agricultural Market Agency (ARR).

US drops ban on EU beef

Rule on EU beef exports to US now in force

By Georgi Gyton

EU beef can now be exported to the US, after the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) rule announcement last November came into force this month.

France increases it imports of UK beef

France increases intake of UK beef

By Georgi Gyton

The amount of UK beef imported by France went up 8% last year, according the latest figures from UK levy body Eblex.

Revenues generated by Polish pork exports rose 18%

Poland posts record pork exports for 2013

Poland reported record exports of pork in 2013, according to data from the state-run Agricultural Market Agency (ARR). The country’s meat processors exported some 438,000 tonnes (t) of pork last year, an increase of 19% compared with a year earlier. In...

UK sheep meat exports rose in 2013

UK sheep meat breaks 100,000t export barrier

By Ed Bedington

Sheep meat exports from the UK continued to boom in 2013, with the country’s producers celebrating breaking the 100,000t barrier for the first time since 1999.

Russia could lift Paraguayan meat ban

Russia considers lifting Paraguayan meat ban

By Vladislav Vorotnikov

Russia could lift a ban on imports from six Paraguayan meat processing plants in the next few weeks, according to veterinary watchdog Rosselkhoznadzor.

Georgia and Moldova emerge as markets for EU pork

Georgia and Moldova emerge as markets for EU pork

By Carmen Paun, in Brussels, and Jonathan Dyson

Pork meat producers stand to benefit from the comprehensive free trade agreements the European Union (EU) has signed with Georgia and Moldova at the end of November.

Brazil sees new record in beef exports

Brazil beef exports hit new record

By Carina Perkins

Brazilian beef exports for the year-to-date hit a record $6bn in November, surpassing whole year targets with a month to go.

Canadian Pork council welcomes Canada-EU trade agreement

Canadian pig bosses welcome EU trade agreement

By Nicholas Robinson

Canadian pig bosses have welcomed a trade agreement between Canada and the European Union before a House of Commons Standing Committee on Agriculture earlier this week.

Canada and EU have signed a free trade agreement

Canada reveals detail of EU FTA

By Keith Nuthall

The Canadian government has made clear the scale of the European Union (EU) market access secured for Canadian meat exporters within the free trade agreement struck between the EU and Canada.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper and President Jose Manuel Barosso

EU-Canada free trade agreement ‘unacceptable’

By Fiona Barry

The signing of a trade agreement establishing tariff-free European access to the Canadian dairy market has been welcomed by the European Dairy Association but roundly condemned by Canadian dairy stakeholders, who branded the deal “unacceptable” and demanded...

Kazakhstan has accused Russia and Belarus of dumping poor quality chicken on its market

Customs Union faces new meat trade dispute

By Vladislav Vorotnikov

Kazakhstan might ban the import of Russian and Belarusian poultry to protect domestic producers from unfair competition, the country’s Deputy Minister of Agriculture Gulmira Isaeva has warned.

Dubai hits the show circuit to turn food trade deficit

Dubai hits the show circuit to turn food trade deficit

By Noel Ebdon

The Emirate of Dubai has taken to the show circuit in an effort to narrow the gap between its food imports and exports, as nearly all of its annual food requirements are imported from overseas.

Uruguayan beef is popular in China

Uruguay beef sector hails Chinese export success

By Jonathan Dyson

The executive director of Uruguay’s intensive cattle producers’ association, AUPCIN, has said that he expects the rapid growth in sales of Uruguayan beef to China to continue over the next few years, due to a number of significant competitive advantages...

Ukraine is looking to sign a free trade agreement with the EU

Russia threatens Ukraine over EU trade agreement

By Vladislav Vorotnikov

Ukraine looks likely to lose the right to export meat and other agricultural products to Russia if it signs the Association Agreement with the EU, according to Russian authorities.

Canada sets sights on UK wheat market as part of European trade expansion plans

Canadian wheat imports to UK up 50%

By Annie-Rose Harrison-Dunn

Poor UK harvests and a deregulation of Canada’s grain market has meant that Canadian wheat sales to the UK have increased by 50%, but the UK industry says that need not mean a long term trend.

EU pig prices are up

European pig prices rise as supply tightens

By Nicholas Robinson

Pig prices across Europe are 5% higher than last year, despite producers seeing a decline in price in the last two weeks, Quality Meat Scotland (QMS) has said.

NPA has accused retailers of turning back to imported pork

UK retailers accused of backsliding after horsemeat scandal

By Ed Bedington

UK pig bosses claim retailers are already backing away from the promises of shorter supply chains made in the wake of the horsemeat scandal and are yet again turning to overseas imports on products like pork and bacon.

UK campaigners want to ban live exports

UK live export protest organised

By Carina Perkins

A welfare charity has revealed plans to hold a “peaceful” march in London on Saturday (10 August) to protest against the UK live export trade.

Ukraine to start exporting meat to Palestine

Ukraine initiates meat exports to Palestine

By Vladislav Vorotnikov

Ukraine will start the export of meat products to the Palestinian market, with the first shipments to be sent in the coming months, according to a recently signed agreement between the two countries.

The EC has clarified its stance on SPS negotiations with the US

EC reveals position on TTIP

By Carina Perkins

The European Commission (EC) has taken the unprecedented step of publishing position papers on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations, revealing its stance on the contentious issue of sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) barriers.

Ukraine to export duty-free lamb to EU

EU approves duty-free quota for Ukrainian lamb

By Carina Perkins

Ukraine has been given approval to export lamb to the EU duty-free, and similar measures will be taken in respect of other types of meat, according to Ukraine’s Ministry of Economic Development.

Concerns US-EU free trade agreement could comprimise food safety

Groups call on EU/US to protect food safety under TTIP

By Carina Perkins

A coalition of international food, environmental and consumer groups has written to US and EU trade representatives demanding they reject calls for the Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) agreement to include compromises on food safety...

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