USA: More Pork Processing Units Approved to Export to China

China recently approved 23 U.S. pork processing units to export products to the Asian country, following recent trade negotiations between Washington and Beijing. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the U.S. Trade Representative's Office (USTR) have been working with China's General Customs Administration to renew registrations for U.S. meat and poultry factories and facilities that expired earlier this year. The recent renewals, which also included 83 poultry facilities, apply to products produced after June 11. The latest factory approvals came just a week after the United States and China agreed to move forward with the May trade agreement they reached in Geneva, Switzerland. China granted export registrations to over 1,000 U.S. meat factories under the 2020 Phase 1 trade agreement with the United States, ...