Agri-Business
The latest agri-food trade report from the European Commission shows there was a €1.2 billion slump in exports to China between Jan-Nov 2023.
EU agri-food exports were worth €19.6 billion in September 2024, an increase of 5% on the previous month, according to a new report.
Tariff rate quotas for imports of eggs and sugar from Ukraine into the EU have been reintroduced after an "emergency brake" was triggered.
MEPs voted to extend the suspension of import duties and quotas on agricultural products from Ukraine for another year, until June 5, 2025.
Measures by the EU to protect its producers from "rising" Ukrainian imports have been criticised by six farmer representative bodies.
Several agriculture sectors across the European Union are being "severely impacted" by "unlimited" imports from Ukraine, the EPP said.
Agri Politics
he European Commissioner for Agriculture has heard "strong concerns" from six EU associations about "unlimited imports from Ukraine".
Sheep
16% of New Zealand lamb headed for the EU for the first quarter of 2021-2022, according to the beef and lamb mid-season outlook 2021-2022.
The EU should stop importing agricultural goods made using pesticides that are banned within the bloc, Commissioner Wojciechowski has said.
N.Ireland
Farmers have been urged to be vigilant after cases of bluetongue have been found in imported cattle in Great Britain.
Australia and New Zealand are set to fill their quotas for sheepmeat exports to the EU in 2016, according to a recent report from Meat and Livestock Australia.
The EU imported 1% more sheepmeat in the first half of 2015 compared to the first half of 2014, according to AHDB.
