Area
Kuwait
Commodity Group
Meat
Commodity
All
Date
01/04/2018
Policy Category
Trade
Policy Instrument
Import ban
Description
Issued 11 administrative decisions to ban the import of beef and ovine meat and live birds from several countries. These included: banning bovine and ovine meat from the Russian Federation due to foot-and-mouth disease (FMD), and from Kazakhstan due to anthrax; banning import of live poultry, hatching eggs and chicks from Pakistan, Mexico, Texas and Missouri in the United States, Denmark and the United Kingdom, due to outbreaks of HPAI.
