AreaSouth Africa

Commodity GroupMeat

CommodityPig meat

Date01/07/2011

Policy CategoryTrade

Policy InstrumentElimination of import ban

DescriptionReopening of the South African market to Brazilian pork announced. South Africa banned imports of beef and pork from the whole of Brazil in 2005 because of an outbreak of foot and mouth disease in cattle in Mato Grosso do Sul. Beef imports ban lifted in 2009.