Irish officials asked Beijing to resume beef imports
Ireland is looking to regain access for beef in the Chinese market, as Brazil resumed beef exports to China after a three-month suspension. Beef imports from both countries have been suspended by the Chinese authorities following atypical BSE cases reported in Ireland and Brazil. Nevertheless, Irish beef exports to China have been banned since May last year, while the Brazilian beef industry was kept aside from China since September 2021.
Last week, Brazil has regained access for boneless frozen beef to the Chinese market and Ireland is hoping to re-open the same market quickly. The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) in Ireland said that there is no sign of technical and scientific basis for the continued suspension of Irish beef exports to China. And DAMF also confirmed that the risk of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in Ireland is in the status of negligible. The DAFM reiterated that the resumption of Irish beef exports to China remains a “high priority objective”.
For the first 4 months of 2020, Ireland exported 7,500 tonnes of beef to China and exports were picking up pace. On the other hand, Brazil is the world's largest beef exporter and, for the first three quarters of 2021, 683,480 tonnes of beef were shipped to the Chinese market.
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