Government eases restrictions on meat exports

Also, the official remarked: “The President of the Republic asked me in a special way to put into operation what the pandemic had prevented us from working.”

Governors Axel Kicillof (Buenos Aires), Gustavo Bordet (Entre Ríos), Sergio Ziliotto (La Pampa) and Gerardo Zamora (Santiago del Estero) attended the meeting held at the Ministry’s facilities.

As for the business sector, the four presidents of the entities of the Liaison Table: Nicolás Pino (Argentine Rural Society), Carlos Achetoni (Argentine Agrarian Federation), Elbio Laucirica (Coninagro) and Jorge Chemes (Argentine Rural Confederations).

The flexibility to export to China adds to the cuts destined for the European Union to comply with the Hilton Quota and kosher meat for the Israel market, which had already been authorized by the national Executive.

The measure known as the “meat stocks” was in force since May with the aim of curbing the rise in prices and increasing the supply at the local level, and was in force until October 31.

The decision initially generated rejection by the Mesa de Enlace by qualifying it as a setback at a time when the country requires dollars.

In the preview of the meeting, Paula Spanish, Secretary of Internal Trade, defended the restriction and assured that it managed to “break the upward dynamics” of prices in the butcher shops.

For the official, “the rise” in prices in the butcher shops was cut, while a month later “there was a stop and even a drop in some products.”