Germany: Federal Ministry of Agriculture reaches agreement to export of pork to Vietnam again

05.03.2021 | 16:24:00 | ID: 29889 | Department: Agriculture | Agrarwirtschaft Berlin (agrar-PR) - After the outbreak of African swine fever (ASF) in wild boars in Germany, numerous third countries reacted with an import ban on German pork. Regionalization concept ”. This means that the export of pork from ASF-free areas is possible. Such an agreement was also recently achieved with Vietnam: Germany can now export fresh pork to Vietnam again. In addition, the ministry has achieved the following: • After intensive, technical negotiations, Singapore also only recently agreed to regionalization. • In addition, negotiations with Brazil, Argentina, South Africa and South Korea succeeded in obtaining exemptions from the full export ban for treated / processed pork products or products from pork. • Shortly after the first detection of ASF in wild boars, negotiations were successful that Bosnia-Herzegovina and Canada would import fresh pork from farms in ASF-free areas. • As the first ...