U.S. Department of Agriculture says China restricts meat imports

Introduction: growth in China's beef and pork import market slowed down on Friday as China adopted stricter quarantine measures and strengthened customs inspections, which sometimes looked like trade barriers, U.S Department of agriculture officials said In its semi annual report on China's livestock and meat products, the U.S Department of agriculture revealed that trading partners questioned the reasonableness of China's restrictions in some cases Y4n the report points out that in recent months, Chinese officials have refused to import some swine water from Europe and Canada, as well as poultry meat from the United States, based on a qualitative and quantitative approach to the detection of E.coli and Salmonella However, these practices are inconsistent with international practice China has also imposed irregular bans on the import of poultry meat and poultry products from two U.S states, Connecticut and Pennsylvania, where low-risk avian influenza viruses have recently spread Y4n U.S Department of agriculture protested against China's response The U.S Department of Agriculture reports that China's increased restrictions on imports have led to an increase in illegal trade The report said, for example, that in the past 12 months, China's official display of a sharp decline in U.S beef exports was inconsistent with the U.S export report In fact, the beef export data in 2001 was slightly higher than that in the previous year Y4n the U.S Department of internal Agriculture said that in order to avoid restrictions on imports from specific countries, some goods arriving in Hong Kong, often pigs, would be fraudulently repackaged It is often in such repackaging that the United States is most often changed to the country of origin, the report said, which is most often found in pigs Given the chaos in China's meat import market, it is difficult to predict the amount of meat China may import, the report said As part of China's WTO commitments, China lowered tariffs on meat imports But the USDA said stronger quarantine and customs enforcement would lead to trade restrictions and friction with trading partners because of the lack of scientific basis for such practices Y4n trade tensions between China and the United States have increased recently, as China has promulgated new regulations on the import of genetically modified food, mainly affecting us soybeans U.S officials have threatened to file a complaint with the World Trade Organization against China over biotechnology regulations Y4n (author:) shared on feed Weibo to: