Brazilian Products

02/27/2009
More seven Brazilian states were recognized by the Chile government as free from foot-and-mouth fever. Just the state of Rio Grande do Sul was authorized to sell bovine meat to that country, but starting from this year Rondonia, Mato Grosso, Goias, Minas Gerais, Espirito Santo, Sao Paulo and Parana should enter in the list as it informed on this Thursday (26) the Brazilian Association of the Industries Exporters of Meats (Abiec).  
  
The exports of Brazilian bovine meat to Chile were suspended in the end of 2005, when a focus of foot-and-mouth fever was detected in Mato Grosso do Sul and soon later in Parana. The state of Rio Grande do Sul, that was already recognized by the Chilean government as free from the disease, had its countersigned sanitary status. On the other way, Mato Grosso do Sul was left out of the new list, that, as to the director-executive of Abiec, Otavio Cancado, it is “unacceptable.” 
 
“It is a shame to Brazil and it should not be accepted. Mato Grosso do Sul is recognized with free from its deseas for the World Organization of Animal Health and for more than 80 markets. There is no argument for the state to be smuggled of the trade with Chile and the federal government should insist the return because in the clue fragilized a country to say that international rules won't be accepted”, affirmed Cancado. 
 
The executive director said that the Chilean recognition comes late, a lot after the international one. “It is not possible that Chile use this artifices to impose barriers”, it explained Cancado, referring to the exclusion of Mato Grosso do Sul that, according to him, it should enter as one of the priority items in the calendar of the Ministry of the Agriculture in the trade of meats. 
 
In the past year the country sold seven thousand tons of bovine meat to Chile, in the total value of US$ 17 million. With the entrance of more seven states, Cancado said that the expectation is that the Brazilian producers return to the landing of 100 thousand tons exported for there, registered up to 2005, when the trade was interrupted. For the negotiations beginning, the Chilean government needs now to publish the list of authorized butcher shops to sell for there. "The Chilean importers buy the noble parts of the bovine cattle, most expensives, and for that the market is important for us", it concluded Otavio Cancado.

03/23/2010
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