ARGENTINA TO INCREASE BEEF EXPORTS TO EU ONCE FMD-LINKED BAN IS LIFTED
January 1st, 2016
Argentina is poised this year to increase beef exports to the European Union (EU) after its government predicted the EU would soon lift foot and mouth disease-related import restrictions for meat from its northern provinces.
New agriculture minister Ricardo Buryaile said January 20 that the European Commission would lift restrictions “in the first half of the year.”
This would allow livestock producers in the Chaco, Corrientes, Formosa and Salta provinces to resume exports, which have been blocked by the EU since 2003 following an outbreak of foot and mouth ...
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