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Brazil woos Saudi Arabian beef importers

29/04/2013
Sales of Brazilian beef to the Middle East and North Africa in the first quarter of the year dropped 9% in volume and 18% in value, according to local reports. From January to March, the region received shipments of 54,820 tonnes worth $223.8 million.

“Saudi Arabia is the most important and the country that weighed most heavily in the general reduction in the volume exported to the region,” said Fernando Sampaio, executive director at the Brazilian Beef Industry and Exporters Association. “The Ministry of Agriculture officially invited Saudi sanitary authorities to visit Brazil so that the embargo could be removed. It is a priority to recover the market in Saudi Arabia, we must revert this embargo.”

Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait have banned imports of Brazilian beef after an atypical case of BSE, in a cow that died in 2010, was announced last year.

In the first quarter of 2012, Saudi Arabia imported 7,810 tonnes of Brazilian beef, generating $36.44 million. In the same period this year, it imported 25 tonnes, worth $56,730.


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