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Area	Commodity Group	Commodity	Date	Policy Category	Policy Instrument	Description
Republic of Korea	Meat	Bovine meat	2016.01	Trade	Import ban	Resumed bovine meat imports from Canada. Imports had been suspended in early 2015 after a [...]
South Africa	Meat	All	2016.01	Trade	Market access	Opened market to poultry, beef and pork imports from the US.
Argentina	Meat	Bovine meat	2015.12	Trade	Export restricitons	Lifted licensing requirements for beef exports and eliminated a 15 percent tax.
Mexico	Meat	Poultry meat	2015.12	Trade	Tariff rate quota	Extended the tariff rate quota scheme allowing duty-free import of up to 300 000 tonnes [...]
Canada	Meat	Bovine meat	2015.10	Trade	Import ban lifted	Re-opened its market to imports of beef from the EU (19 EU member countries initially [...]
United States of America	Meat	All	2015.09	Trade	Import ban lifted	Opened its market to imports of bovine meat, pigmeat, sheepmeat and goatmeat from Lithuania.
Russian Federation	Meat	All	2015.08	Production	State market intervention	Approved USD 176 million subsidy on interest payments for short-term loans to develop dairy cattle [...]
Australia	Meat	Bovine meat	2015.07	Trade	Health Certification	Signed the Australia-China Live Cattle Export Health Certification Agreement, a health protocol which will enable [...]
Canada	Meat	Bovine meat	2015.07	Trade	Free Trade Agreement	Concluded free trade negotiations with the Ukraine which included access for bovine meat and for [...]
Myanmar	Meat	All	2015.07	Trade	Import ban lifted	Approved importation of bovine meat, cattle and poultry meat from Brazil.

Disclaimer: The policy records included in the tool are based on publicly available information from both official and private sources. While efforts have been made to verify its content, FAO does not guarantee the full accuracy or comprehensiveness of the information and recommends to consult / refer to other FAO publications reporting policy developments, especially the Oilcrops Monthly Price and Policy Update, the Monthly News Report on Grains and the FAO Rice Market Monitor. The frequency of updates may differ across commodities.