Eurasian Union re-grants Brazil meat import quota with zero tax

Published 2021년 12월 9일

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The Eurasian Economic Union (UEA) has set import quotas for Brazilian beef and pork for member countries, including Russia, which has been granted a 200,000-ton beef and a 100,000-ton pork quota for 2022. Other UEA countries like Armenia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Belarus also have quotas for Brazilian beef and pork. This follows the re-permission of 16 Brazilian meat processing plants to export to Russia, which were previously suspended due to a banned substance in 2017.

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The Eurasian Economic Union (UEA) includes Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. In particular, Russia is granted an import quota of 200,000 tons of Brazilian beef that will be effective for the whole year of 2022 and a quota of 100,000 tons of pork that will be effective from January 1, 2022 to June 30, 2022. The UEA also provides import quotas totaling 38,500 tons of fresh, chilled or frozen beef from Brazil to the following countries: Armenia 5,000 tons, Kazakhstan 21,000 tons, Kyrgyzstan 5,000 tons and Belarus 7,500 tons. In addition, quotas of 5,000 tons of frozen pork are also granted to Armenia and 7,000 tons to Kazakhstan and 20,000 tons of fresh, chilled or frozen pork to Belarus. The new import quotas set forth in Eurasian Union Decision 116/2021 were agreed during the visit of Brazilian Agriculture Minister Tereza Cristina to Moscow in November 2021. After this mission, the Russian government agreed to allow the re-import of 16 Brazilian meat processing ...

Source: Vinanet