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Hong Kong has removed its ban on South Korean pork imports, becoming the first state to do so since Seoul was declared free of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD).

The annual pork meat consumption per capita in Brazil is set at 14 kg, a figure considered to be low when compared with EU consumption, which reaches 40kg.

EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht, the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs Steven Vanackere representing the Presidency of the Council of the European Union (EU), and the Korean Minister for Trade Kim Jong-hoon today signed a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the EU and South Korea. This FTA is the most ambitious trade agreement ever negotiated by the EU and the first with an Asian country.

During the last 40 years, meat consumption in France has had two different phases; between 1977 and 1998 a regular increase of per capita meat consumption was registered, going from 77,6 kg per capita to 94,5 kg, but between 1998 and 2009, consumption dropped to 87,8 kg.

According to initial estimates, income from the Swiss agricultural sector has fallen by 3.4% in 2010 compared with the previous year, after the 7.7% drop in 2009.

Exports of Canada`s pork products have managed to hold steady and even climb despite live hog output in the country continuing to decline. The ability to maintain exports of Canada's pork products also comes as domestic production of those products begins to decline.

Pork is firmly fixed as a family favourite with sales continuing to rise according to the latest figures from BPEX. During August the total meat market rose by one per cent while sales of fresh pork saw a dramatic rise of 11 per cent.

According to information from commercial exchanges within the livestock farmers sector, the exportations, both within the EU as well as in other countries, show an upward trend.

Vietnam will increase taxes on imported meats to 40% from late October 2010 in a move to protect its local livestock industry.

South Korea will seek to resume exports of pork as the country has been declared free of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD).

Swine production for 2010 is forecast to increase 0.3 percent in 2010, the same rate of increase expected for 2009 (0.3 percent). Lower prices, a media consumption campaign, and increased availability of pork products could stimulate demand (and therefore production).

The European Commission has adopted a draft decision on further liberalisation bilateral trade in agricultural products between the EU and Norway. It now passes to the Council and the European Parliament for approval.

Thailand’s Department of Internal Trade or DIT has ordered pork retailers to reduce the retail price of pork to THB 105- 110/kg (USD 3.42- 3.58) from THB 110-115/kg (USD 3.58- 3.75).

While during the first six months of the year we are still seeing adjustments in pork production due to a difficult 2009, with national pork production shrinkage of 6% in volume and a decrease in exports, internal consumption is up by 5%.