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Certification is "immediately" available for exports of live beef and dairy cattle and genetics from Canada to free trade partner Peru.
The federal government announced Tuesday that negotiations on a health certificate for exports of cattle born after Aug. 1, 2007 have reached a "successful conclusion," allowing exports to resume immediately.
Peru, which has had a free trade agreement with Canada since 2009, becomes the seventh market in Latin America and the Caribbean to re-open to Canadian cattle, following Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Barbados, Bermuda and Trinidad and Tobago, the government noted.
Canada Beef and the Canadian Livestock Genetics Association estimate the market to be valued at more than $2.5 million in 2012 for the Canadian cattle sector, the government said. The bulk of expected sales this year are expected to be in dairy genetics.
"Peru has imported a number of purebred beef cattle breeds from Canada as breeding stock and we are most appreciative to (federal) ministers for once again gaining trade access to this market," Brett Campbell, executive vice-president of the Canadian Beef Breeds Council, said in the government?s release.
Peru shut its ports of entry to Canadian beef and cattle after the discovery of Canada?s first domestic case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in 2003.
Read more at http://agcanada.com/daily/peru-re-opens-ports-to-live-canadian-cattle/
The federal government announced Tuesday that negotiations on a health certificate for exports of cattle born after Aug. 1, 2007 have reached a "successful conclusion," allowing exports to resume immediately.
Peru, which has had a free trade agreement with Canada since 2009, becomes the seventh market in Latin America and the Caribbean to re-open to Canadian cattle, following Colombia, Mexico, Panama, Barbados, Bermuda and Trinidad and Tobago, the government noted.
Canada Beef and the Canadian Livestock Genetics Association estimate the market to be valued at more than $2.5 million in 2012 for the Canadian cattle sector, the government said. The bulk of expected sales this year are expected to be in dairy genetics.
"Peru has imported a number of purebred beef cattle breeds from Canada as breeding stock and we are most appreciative to (federal) ministers for once again gaining trade access to this market," Brett Campbell, executive vice-president of the Canadian Beef Breeds Council, said in the government?s release.
Peru shut its ports of entry to Canadian beef and cattle after the discovery of Canada?s first domestic case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy in 2003.
Read more at http://agcanada.com/daily/peru-re-opens-ports-to-live-canadian-cattle/