Spain negotiates with five markets to maintain export certificates

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPA) is maintaining negotiations with the markets of China, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, and the United Kingdom to avoid losing export certificates due to the situation arising from the positive cases of African swine fever (ASF) in Spain. This was assured by the Secretary General of Agricultural Resources and Food Safety, Ana Rodríguez, at the Agro-Food Industry 2025 "Challenges and Future of the Spanish Food Industry" event, organized by the economic newspaper Expansión. China, Japan, the Philippines, South Korea, and the United Kingdom are markets, in order of priority, along with the European Union (EU) with which the Government is negotiating "daily" to ensure that no certificates are closed and the regionalization of pork product exports is maintained, in light of the positive cases of ASF in Spain. Rodríguez emphasized the speed with which the different administrations have responded, for example with the ...