LatinNews Daily - 17 September 2018

* Uruguay’s minister of livestock, agriculture & fishing, Enzo Benech, has announced that “the opening of the Japanese market for [Uruguayan] meat is imminent”. Benech made his remarks during the closing of Expo Prado, Uruguay’s most important agro-industrial and trade fair. Japan has had a ban on Uruguay’s beef exports following an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in 2001. Uruguay’s export markets began to reopen when no new cases were discovered after August 2001, with exports to the European Union (EU) resuming in November 2001, and to the US in June 2003 following a May announcement by the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) that Uruguay had been granted the status of “FMD-free with vaccination”. However, Japan had retained the embargo in place.

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