BEIJING (Reuters) – China banned the imports of poultry and related products from Brazil over an avian influenza outbreak, the customs administration said in a notice released on its website dated May 29.
Brazil, the world’s largest chicken exporter, confirmed its first outbreak of bird flu on a commercial poultry farm in its southernmost state earlier this month, triggering a slew of international trade bans.
The Brazilian government had previously asked top buyer China to restrict its embargo to poultry products just from the city where the outbreak occurred.
(Reporting by Ella Cao, Xiuhao Chen and Liz Lee; Editing by Tomasz Janowski)
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