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During the first 7 months of this year pork exports have reached 1,759,769 tons, which signifies a 20.5% increase with respect to the same period last year.

The National Health, Food Safety and Food Quality Service (SENASICA) of Mexico announced that the government of Korea has authorized 6 Mexican Federal Inspection Type (TIF) plants to export beef and pork to their nation.

Strong demand in north east Asia has delivered a surge in Irish pork exports to the core markets of China, Hong Kong, Japan and Korea to date in 2011. For the first five months of the year, exports in value and volume terms to these four markets almost trebled to €16.9m or 10,700 tonnes.

The submission to Congress today by President Obama of free trade agreements with South Korea, Panama and Colombia is a positive step toward improving the U.S. balance of trade and creating new jobs in America, the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF) said.

Dutch pig producers have gained access this year, for the first time, to the Chinese market. The high demand for pork in China has obliged Beijing to permit imports from other countries to fulfill the need.

Due to the detection of the violations of Russia’s and CU animal health requirements and standards temporary restrictions on export of products to Russia’s/CU market are imposed by the Rosselkhoznadzor against 12 e<br>stablishments from October 10, 2011.

Director-General of the Department of Internal Trade Watcharee Wimuktayon indicated that the ban on pork export was only temporarily while expressing her belief that the prices of pork were still reasonable.

A comprehensive set of guidelines for managing and expediting the export of red meat products to Mexico has been updated by USMEF-Mexico.

Duties for grain export from Ukraine that led to the fall of shipment volumes will be preserved until the end of 2011, since the government turned down a proposal from the Agrarian Policy and Food Ministry to refuse from the duties, Deputy Director of the Ministry's Market Department Anatoliy Rozgon told journalists.

With the end of advancing the establishment of protocols for the harmonization and approval of zoological and phytosanitary measures, as well as increasing the exportation of agrofood products from Mexico to the Asian market, the National Service for Health, Food Safety and Food Quality (SENASICA) has initiated a technical visit to Taiwan, Korea, and Japan.

Irish food and drink exports to China are set to grow by almost 20% this year to more than €150 million.

During the first half of this year, pork imports in Russia have increased by 5%, compared with the same period last year.

U.S. pork exports show good prospects for growth in Hong Kong’s domestic market, greatly benefiting from the Hong Kong dollar’s peg to the U.S. dollar.

Throughout July, Brazilian pork exports reached 36.104 tons, which signifies a 17,52% decrease in volume and a 13,28% decrease in value. The main cause of this decrease was the Russian embargo on pork meat decreed on June 2nd, which came into effect on June15th.

Denmark's exports of pork and pigs between January and April 2011 reached 698,000 metric tons.

China imported 126,269 tons of fresh and frozen pork in the first half this year, an increase of 43.39% compared with the same time last year.