DESPITE approaching week-four of its China beef market suspension, Brazil remains optimistic about re-gaining access to its dominant beef export market in coming days.
Last week the Brazilian Government again said it expected to resume beef exports to China in ‘the next few days’, and also stated it would seek a revision of the protocol that triggered the ban after it discovered a case of atypical BSE in a beef cow in the northern state of Para back on February 21.
Brazil immediately voluntarily suspended trade with China, in compliance with a bilateral sanitary agreement between the…