While Argentina is still waiting, Bolivia has already received the green light and will be able to export its bovine offal to China.

The ongoing negotiations, according to both sides, are going well, and the latest leaks indicate that there could be news by the end of this month. However, others are more skeptical and claim that everything is being delayed amid the anti-China flirtations of President Javier Milei and his counterpart from the United States, Donald Trump. Meanwhile, some are already celebrating the opening of these markets. In recent days, Bolivian cattle producers received confirmation that China approved the sanitary protocol for the entry of more than 30 boneless cuts and a long list of edible offal and bovine by-products. This includes unrefined body fat, rumen, omasum, abomasum, reticulum, heart, kidney, liver, diaphragm, cartilage, testicles, aorta, tendons, and bovine penis, a set of products that will increase sales to their main trading partner. In reality, the offal usually travels from Argentina to China, but it does so through Hong Kong, an intermediary that causes a loss of part of ...