Baja seeks to ease trade disputes over beef

OA show ('918 '); [Baja tries to ease the trade dispute caused by beef problem] the expert technical team of NAFTA arrived in Brasilia on February 14, and began to investigate whether there is BSE in Brazil and the cattle health and quarantine measures taken by Brazil The Brazilian government expressed its full cooperation with the work of the technical team to resolve the beef trade dispute with Canada that has lasted for more than ten days as soon as possible On February 2, the Canadian government, citing Brazil's failure to provide information to the Canadian side on the existence of BSE, abruptly announced a moratorium on the import of beef and beef products from Brazil, and demanded all domestic sales departments to immediately withdraw the imported Brazilian beef products from the shelves After Canada, two other NAFTA members, the United States and Mexico, also announced that they would stop importing Brazilian beef Canada's move immediately aroused a strong response from Brazil Brazil's Foreign Ministry issued a statement Friday criticizing Canada's decision as groundless and seriously damaging Brazil's trade relations with other countries, asking the Canadian government to change its decision as soon as possible, otherwise Brazil will take corresponding measures Brazilian president Cardoso said Wednesday that Canada's decision was "arbitrary and unacceptable." In an interview with a Brazilian journalist the next day, he stressed that there is absolutely no BSE in Brazil and that the Canadian approach is discriminatory If Canada does not cancel the decision within two weeks, Brazil will take strong retaliatory measures At the same time, the Brazilian parliament decided to suspend the consideration of the extradition agreement and the police cooperation agreement between the two countries, and the relevant parties of the parliament also decided to suspend the issuance of tourist and work visas for Canadians to Brazil People from all walks of life also went to the Canadian Embassy and consulate in Brazil to hold a protest Brazil now has 163 million cattle, which is the most commodity cattle country in the world Its annual export income is nearly 1 billion US dollars, ranking the fourth in the world After Canada announced the ban on Brazilian beef, the price of Brazilian beef in domestic and foreign markets fell by 7%, and many beef processing enterprises have shut down or reduced production Brazil believes that Canada's decision to stop importing Brazilian beef is a trade retaliation against Brazil In recent years, Brazil and Canada have been competing for the regional aircraft export market Canada has sued the WTO many times, accusing Brazil of subsidizing the aircraft export, which has seriously damaged Canada's interests In order to ease the trade dispute caused by the beef problem, the Canadian government announced on July 7 that it would send a technical team to Brazil to investigate the health and quarantine status of beef Canada stressed that the stop of importing Brazilian beef was purely for the purpose of protecting the health of the domestic people and had nothing to do with the aircraft trade dispute The Canadian Embassy in Brazil sent a note to the Brazilian government, promising to reconsider the decision to impose the beef embargo on Brazil after reviewing the relevant documents provided by Brazil and confirming the quality of beef A spokesman for Canada's foreign ministry called on the Brazilian government not to change its view on the prospects of multilateral trade Brian Evans, head of NAFTA's technical team and chief veterinarian of Canada's livestock quarantine bureau, said at a press conference after his arrival in Brazil on the 14th that the purpose of the technical team's visit was to fully understand Brazil's health and quarantine plan for the prevention of mad cow disease and eliminate misunderstanding between the two sides Evans said he believes Brazil's own cattle have no problems, but doubts about the nearly 4000 cattle Brazil imported from Europe after 1990 The technical team would like to know what measures Brazil has taken to prevent these cattle from being eaten after aging Analysts here believe that the governments of Brazil and Canada will resolve the beef trade dispute through negotiation as soon as possible to avoid the outcome of both sides' failure China feed industry information network 66W (author:)