China, EU and Argentine stop Chicken Meat purchases from Brazil | The economy
China, European Union (EU) and Argentina SuspendedThis Friday (16), the Brazilian chicken meat imports60 days at the beginning. The action was taken after verifying the identification of High Pathogenity Avarian Influenza Virus (IAAP) in the Municipality of Mantenegro (RS), the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAPA) in Matrigiro.
Despite the regional focus, the restrictions of the China and the European alliance cover the entire national territory due to the requirements of both trade agreements with Brazil.
China’s largest buyer of Brazilian chicken meat, 562.2 thousand tonnes of goods in 2024, a total of 10.8%. European Union’s seventh major destination of national exports, more than 231.8 thousand tons Marked last year, which represented a total of 4.49%. Data from Brazilian Association of Animal Protein (ABPA).
In the case of Argentina, the size of the chicken meat imports in Brazil is not the largest, through the product that the national service of the neighboring country should be stopped by the National Service of Agrifam Quality (Senasa) and to prevent the imports of Brazilian products and that the country is free from high pathogens (IAAP).
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In addition, the Argentine government has said it is taking biosecurity and health surveillance from poultry companies to reduce the risk of admission. The focus of avior flu took place 620 km (km) from the border between the two countries.
The map said in a statement that it would follow for the forgotten of the current trade agreements. “Reacting to the quality of transparency and liability of the products of Brazil exported products, export limits follow sanitary contracts with our business partners,” he said.
Regional limit
The folder stressed that it had worked to discuss international health deals with partner countries, recognizing the regionalization formula recommended by the World Animal Health Organization (OMSA), limiting the export of 10 km. However, the folder feels that countries often adopt different standards of regionalization, which may vary between local or regional limits.
For example, Japan, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Philippines have already approved regionalization for IAAP, which should avoid a very common impact on exports. After China, these five countries are the largest buyers of Brazilian chicken meat, together, together with a total of 35.4% exported in 2024, according to the ABPA.
The world’s largest chicken meat exporter, Brazil has sold 5.2 million tonnes of production in various formats and 151 countries, earning a US $ 9.9 billion income. More than 35.3% of the total produced in Brazil is intended for the foreign market. Parana, Santa Caterina and Rio Grande Do Sal are 78% of these exports.
Last year, the focus of Newcastle Disease (DNC), which reached wild and commercial birds, was also recognized in Rio Grande Do Sul, after sanitary measures, and the Ministry of Agriculture and Cattle was communicated to the World Animal Health Organization by the end of the disease, about 10 days later.
Riskless
Previously, the map was stressed as a disease It cannot be transmitted by meat consumption Birds or eggs.
“Brazilian and worldwide population can be quiet about the safety of products, and there is no limit on their consumption. The risk of human infections through the avian flu virus is low and the most likely to occur in infected birds (alive or dead),” the folder said.
