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NPPC: Lifting of China's H1N1-Related Ban on Pork Great for Producers
Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:43:57 CDTThe National Pork Producers Council says an agreement reached Thursday to reopen the Chinese market to U.S. pork imports should help struggling pork producers. China closed its market to U.S. pork late last April in the wake of the H1N1 outbreak. Trade will resume immediately upon both sides finalizing export documentation.
NPPC President Sam Carney says that's great news for the nation's pork producers noting China is one of the biggest markets for the industry. The U.S. pork industry shipped nearly 400-thousand metric tons of pork worth nearly 690-million dollars to China/Hong Kong in 2008 making it the number three destination for U.S. pork. Last year those exports were down by 38-percent falling to just under 427-million.
Carney says NPPC will now focus on remaining impediments to exporting U.S. pork to China.
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