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3 more countries ban Brazilian beef
Story Date: 1/4/2013
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Source: Bob Moser, MEATINGPLACE, 1/3/13
Taiwan, Chile and Jordan have become the eighth, ninth and 10th countries to announce full or partial bans on Brazilian beef since a case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) from 2010 was reported on Dec. 7, Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture confirmed for Meatingplace on Thursday morning.
Jordan is prohibiting beef products only from Parana state, where the BSE case was cited, while Chile is restricting Brazilian bone flour (farinha de osso) and beef flour (farinha de carne). Taiwan has also sent confirmation of a Brazilian beef ban, though Taiwan already restricts raw beef imports. Brazilian exports to Taiwan were limited in 2012 to US$88,000 in processed beef products, according to Brazilian beef trade association Abiec.
With these latest additions, the Brazilian government is officially counting eight export markets with bans against Brazilian beef: South Korea, China, Japan, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, Chile and Jordan.
But Meatingplace currently counts 10 countries as having enacted bans, following Lebanon's announcement on Jan. 2, and a Dec. 31 announcement by Peru that it would ban Brazilian beef for 90 days. The Ministry of Agriculture says it hasn't received official word from Lebanon and Peru as of Thursday morning, and therefore isn't including those on its list.
For those that read Spanish, Peru published notice of its Brazil beef ban on Jan. 2, in a e-newsletter from Senasa, the National Service for Agrarian Sanitation, and Meatingplace sister site CarneTec Brasil was the first Brazilian news outlet to report this information.
Brazil's BSE case was cleared by the International Organization for Animal Health (OIE) in early December, and Brazil maintained its high safety ratings for beef from the OIE. Trade barriers being raised are thus in conflict with World Trade Organization rules, Secretary of Foreign Trade Tatiana Prazeres said Wednesday during a press conference in Brasilia.
Brazil has drawn a line in the sand, claiming it will take action with the WTO in March against any countries that maintain beef bans.
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