All over his commute to the Other people’s Republic of China, German Federal Minister of Meals and Agriculture, Cem Özdemir, and Minister Yu Jianhua of the Primary Customs Management signed two bilateral agreements to proceed transferring against the liberalization of the meals marketplace for German agricultural exports.
After a few years of negotiations, a joint declaration has been reached on lifting the ban because of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) at the export of German red meat to China. Germany has followed complete measures towards BSE and has been loose for years. Pork exports to China have no longer been imaginable for the reason that BSE disaster of the early 2000s. Settlement has additionally been reached on phytosanitary necessities, this is, the ones associated with the well being of vegetation and plant merchandise, for the export of clean apples from Germany to China.
New talks also are anticipated to happen on German beef exports from spaces unaffected by means of African swine fever (ASF). The export of German beef to China has no longer been imaginable since ASF seemed in Germany in 2020. That very same yr, Germany exported 319,448 lots of clean, chilled, or frozen beef to China (plus offal and fats). In 2023 there have been simplest 739 t. Germany has taken complete measures to fight the illness and there are lately no instances of ASF in home pigs. It has additionally restricted ASF within the wild boar inhabitants to a small space via strict keep an eye on and prevention measures.
April 17, 2024/ BMEL/ Germany.
https://www.bmel.de/