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Vilsack: U.S., China Working on Poultry Trade
USAgNet - 11/06/2009
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is working with China to allow trade in poultry meat, said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack following talks in Hangzhou. The USDA will soon begin a review of China's
food safety laws and poultry plants with an eye to allowing imports of Chinese poultry products, Tom Vilsack told Reuters.
Post Chronicle reports that Secretary Vilsack signed a letter to U.S. Congress during trade talks in Hangzhou, China to formally begin the review process.
"Our goal and our intent is to do this as expeditiously as possible with cooperation from China," Vilsack said in a telephone interview from Hangzhou.
Congress recently lifted a ban on imports of poultry from China, which has been one of several agricultural trade irritants between the two trading superpowers. China is a top buyer of US meat, chicken,
soybeans and other products.
During the meeting, China agreed to lift its ban on U.S. pork, which accounted for $560 million in trade in 2008. Vilsack said that Chinese Agriculture Minister, Sun Zhengcai, said China would make a formal
announcement about the end of pork ban "very soon," according to Post Chronicle.
Vilsack added that he did not know what technical requirements China would have for trade to resume.
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