US: USMEF and USDA address Colombia’s HPAI concerns

Published 2024년 8월 27일

Tridge summary

A collaborative effort between USMEF Colombia, USMEF Denver, and the Foreign Ag Service post in Bogota aimed at enhancing understanding and addressing trade issues between the US beef and pork industry and its Colombian counterpart. The initiative, which included discussions on technical trade matters and the US meat industry's farm-to-fork process, evolved to address the Colombian ban on US beef from states with High Path Avian Influenza (HPAI) in dairy cattle. Despite concerns about beef safety, as supported by USDA studies, the ban has impacted US beef exports to Colombia. This inaugural event was well-received and both countries expressed an interest in an annual continuation of the discussions, amidst surging US pork exports to Colombia, which are on track to reach a record high in 2024, and a slowdown in beef exports due to the HPAI-related restrictions.

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“USMEF Colombia, USMEF Denver and the Foreign Ag Service post in Bogota came together with an idea to build relationships and really improve understanding of how both markets work, particularly in relation to importing US beef and pork into Colombia,” said Courtney Heller, USMEF director of export services. “We had some outstanding technical trade issues that we felt would probably be resolved if we just really met and discussed how the industry worked. In that time period as we were arranging this seminar, high path avian influenza was found in some of our dairy cattle, and Colombia started to ban US beef if that high path avian influenza was found in dairy cattle in that state. So this program evolved into something that would also cover addressing that trade barrier, in addition to just the overall relationship building efforts that we had in mind.” In April, Colombia began restricting the import of fresh and frozen US beef from states with dairy cattle testing positive for ...

Source: Meat+Poultry