LatinNews Daily - 22 June 2018

* The Brazilian association of animal protein (ABPA), which groups together livestock producers, has released new figures which show that Brazil exported 1.61m tonnes of chicken meat in the first five months of the year, 8.5% less than in the same period in 2017. In value terms, Brazil’s chicken meat exports fell by 12.3% year-on-year to US$2.6bn. The ABPA has attributed the sharp fall in exports to the partial ban on Brazilian chicken meat imports imposed by the European Union (EU) back in April following the emergence of the so-called ‘weak meat scandal’, in which the authorities in Brazil uncovered a series of irregularities in the local meat producing industry’s sanitary controls. The EU ban affects 20 meat processing plants in Brazil in which irregularities were found and has led to a 40% fall in chicken meat exports to the EU so far this year, according to the ABPA. However, the Brazilian government insists that the issues have been resolved; that the ban is now unjustified; and has threated to take a case against the EU before the World Trade Organization (WTO) if the ban is not lifted.

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