China suspends seafood imports from Brazilian company due to Covid-19

Beginning on September 26, China will stop accepting import orders for one week on products from the Brazilian company Monteiro Indústria de Pescados Ltda., due to a package of frozen fish from the company that tested positive for coronavirus. The Ministry of Agriculture confirmed the temporary embargo of the seafood imports. Chinese customs had already warned that it would adopt this type of measure – suspension for one week of purchases – in case of positive results for Covid-19 in cargo from a company for the first or second time. Last week China had already suspended imports from a seafood producer in Indonesia for the same reason.

See the graph below for Brazilian fish exports to China and the rest of the world since 2017:

Brazilian Fish Exports to China and other Countries Jan. 2017 – July 2020 | TEU

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The Brazilian government has already been notified of the decision taken by China. According to Jorge Seif Júnior, the Ministry of Agriculture’s Secretary of Aquaculture and Fisheries, the Ministry is already adopting the necessary measures, coordinated by the Department of Agricultural Defense. The Ministry was informed by the Ministry’s agricultural attachés in China of the decision.

Examinations were carried out on 19 samples of fish exported from Brazil. The virus was found in the packaging of only one of them. The contaminated lot was destroyed and the others released normally. According to Pasta, it is the retention of cargo in customs and not a suspension. No test reports were available.

Source: Valor Econômico

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