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Montevideo, March 5th 2025 - 18:44 UTC

Tag: Mongolia

  • Wednesday, March 5th 2025 - 09:12 UTC

    China halts meat imports from Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Mongolia

    The main Argentine plant affected by the measure insisted on the lagging exchange rate between the peso and the US dollar as a key factor for the business to be profitable

    China’s customs authorities have suspended beef imports from seven meatpacking facilities across Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Mongolia as of March 3, 2025. The affected companies include two Argentine exporters (Frigorífico Regional General Las Heras SA and Frio Dock SA), three Brazilian slaughterhouses (Frisa Frigorífico Rio Doce S/A, Bon-Mart Frigorífico Ltda, and JBS S/A), one Uruguayan facility (Frigorífico Sirsil SA), and a Mongolian supplier. No official reason for the measure was provided, though it follows a 2024 record of 2.87 million metric tons of beef imports, which led to an oversupplied market and historically low domestic beef prices in China.

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  • Wednesday, July 15th 2020 - 08:00 UTC

    A teen ager dies of bubonic plague in Mongolia; allegedly he hunted and ate a marmot

    The boy, who lived in the remote southwest province of Gobi-Altai, caught the rare bacterial illness after hunting and eating a marmot, according to health officials

    A 15-year-old boy has died from the bubonic plague in Mongolia, health authorities said on Tuesday, one of a handful of cases that recently emerged in the country and neighboring China.