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Brazilian overseas beef meat sales are set to grow in 2017, according to projections from the Associação Brasileira das Indústrias Exportadoras de Carne (ABIEC). “Our export forecasts for 2017 are USD5.5 to USD6 billion, said Antônio Jorge Camardelli, the ABIEC president.…

After a major investigation showed evidence of rotten and poor quality meats being consumed in Brazil and exported over the last two years, Brazilian meatpacking industry associations have now spoken out – accusing the police of exaggeration in its claims.

Speaking at a press conference in São Paulo, on Monday (March 20), Francisco Sergio Turra, head of the Brazilian Association of Animal Proteins (ABPA – Associação Brasileira de Proteína Animal), said that the country’s meat production standards follow international models.…

South Korea’s ministry of agriculture, food and rural affairs announced yesterday (March 13) that it plans to lift chicken import tariffs from early April to stabilise local chicken prices.

These have been rising since the ministry on March 6 banned imports of US poultry after a strain of H7 bird flu virus was confirmed at a Tennessee, USA, chicken farm that supplies poultry major Tyson Foods.…

South Korea on March 21 lifted an import ban on chicken from BRF, a major Brazilian poultry exporter that has been at the center of a food safety scandal involving meatpackers allegedly paying off inspectors to overlook practices including processing rotten meat.…

The European Union (EU) has suspended meat imports from four Brazilian exporters, a European Commission official has confirmed to just-food. The official would not name the companies, but noted that the ban followed Friday’s Brazil federal police announcement that four out of 21 meatpacking companies had manipulated certificates for exports to European markets.…

THE TRADE in confectionery products between the European Union (EU) and Canada is likely to increase now the European Parliament has approved the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA).

The vote – on February 15 (2017) – follows years of detailed negotiations and means that large sections of this trade deal can now come into force, maybe as early as April, as long as Canada stages its own vote in time.…

MORE than two thirds of countries rated for public sector corruption in Transparency International’s latest Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) failed to score 50, the halfway point between 0 and 100, with zero regarded as totally corrupt and 100 as unimpeachably clean.…

ROLLS-ROYCE has announced that it has reached deferred prosecution agreements (DPA) with the UK Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and the USA Department of Justice (DoJ), plus a leniency deal with the Brazilian government, to settle bribery and corruption claims. The agreements will see the company pay GBP671 million (USD808 million) in total, which will suspend prosecutions over alleged bribery and corruption involving intermediaries in overseas markets.…

NORTH Africa has never been a particular easy place to do business, but female and male consumers are prepared to spend on personal care products, and profits are there for the taking for companies that take time to understand these vibrant and often contrasting markets.…

Brazil’s tumbling textile exports to Venezuela may fall further if the country is suspended from the south American trading bloc, Mercosur next month. (December, 2016) 

According to World Bank data, Brazil’s textile and clothing exports to Venezuela peaked in 2011 at USD90.3 million but have been falling steadily ever since.…