Outbreaks of avian flu shut down Brazil's export market to China and the European Union

 

Headline:  WATT Poultry, 5/20/2025

Mark Clements reports:

The country’s Ministry of Agriculture (MAPA) notes that the country has a number of international agreements with partner countries that recognize regionalization, allowing exports to be restricted to only within a 10 km radius from the outbreak. 

The Ministry notes that regionalization is justified given that Brazil is not only the largest exporter of poultry meat in the world, but continental in size – covering 8 million km2. Regionalization agreements are already in place with countries such as Japan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the Philippines, meaning that much trade with these countries should remain unaffected. 

China, however, Brazil’s main export market and which bought 562,208 metric tons of Brazilian chicken meat last year, and the European Union (E.U.), it’s seventh most important market do not have regionalization agreements and so exports to those markets have been totally suspended.  [emphasis added]

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