Brazil continues in its efforts to increase meat exports to the United States

In recent days, the multinational Marfrig Global Foods, the world's largest meat product, announced that two of its plants in Brazil would begin exporting beef to the United States. This advance coincides with the suspension of shipments to China for two cases of "mad cow". Alisson Navarro, Marfrig Export Director, expressed for América Economía the satisfaction for the company for this achievement, which occurs at a key moment in the Brazilian livestock sector due to the restriction of shipments to the Asian giant: "This first shipment comes at a very favorable time, when the US economy is receiving strong stimuli and the local market is driven by high demand for beef from both consumers and food service." The North American market is one of the main buyers of Brazilian protein and is on the rise, only behind China and Hong Kong. (Read: What country will be able to supply China's demand for meat given the fall of Brazil and Argentina?) The plants are located in the municipalities ...