Tag: Blairo Maggi

• Monday, April 3rd 2017 - 13:27 UTC

  Irish farmers want meat removed from Mercosur/EU trade talks

  

  The Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) is pushing to have meat removed from the proposed trade deal between Europe and Mercosur in the wake of Brazil’s meat scandal. The move could scupper the entire trade deal given the importance of the meat industry to Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay.

• Thursday, March 30th 2017 - 09:56 UTC

  Brazilian tainted meat: minister believes “the worst of the process is over”

  

  Worldwide markets have been slamming their doors on Brazilian meat since revelations that rotten product was being sold with faked certificates, but the agriculture minister said Thursday “the worst of the process is over.”

• Wednesday, March 22nd 2017 - 11:50 UTC

  Growing concern of Brazil' rotten meat scandal on the Mercosur/EU trade talks

  

  European Union has insisted Brazilian representatives attend an emergency meeting to explain themselves regarding a scandal involving rotten meat and the country’s two largest exporters, JBS and BRF. Brazil has already announced that the 22 plants (out of over 4.000) allegedly involved in the scam have been closed.

• Wednesday, March 15th 2017 - 06:38 UTC

  Mercosur expects to sign a trade deal with the EU by year end taking advantage of Trump's isolationism

  

  Mercosur expects to sign a framework accord this year for a trade deal with the European Union as the U.S. shift to isolationism under President Donald Trump encourages it to look outside the hemisphere for opportunities, Brazil's foreign minister Aloysio Nunes said on Tuesday.

• Thursday, August 11th 2016 - 12:57 UTC

  Brazil running out of corn allows imports to supply pork and poultry sectors

  

  A lower-than-anticipated domestic corn supply is pushing prices up, putting pressure on Brazil’s pork and poultry sectors, and forcing the government to intervene, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) said in its latest report.