The head of the Agroindustrial portfolio began the tour of the Asian continent with his visit to the city of Tokyo, where he met with the Minister of Agriculture of Japan and agreed on the next reciprocal opening in the meat trade.
During the meeting, a broad agenda was worked on, where the next one was highlighted simultaneous opening of beef and sheep meat from Patagonia and Japanese beef. On that occasion, they agreed that both parties will move forward with the necessary process so that at the time of the G-20 Ministerial Meeting on Agriculture at the end of July in Buenos Aires, beef and sheep meat from Patagonia will already be physically available for purchase and sale in the Japanese market, and Japanese meat will already be physically available for purchase and sale in the Argentine market.
In addition, Minister Etchevehere pointed out the need to continue promptly opening the Japanese market to fresh meat from the rest of the country (foot-and-mouth disease-free zone with vaccination), which will have the valuable precedent of Patagonian meat for more agile management.
"There is political will for Argentina and Japan to strengthen their trade relationship," said the Minister, adding that "we believe there is a great deal of room to deepen and diversify our exchanges and we hope to be able to move forward quickly in market opening and trade promotion actions, for mutual benefit."
It was also broadcast on iinterest in concluding with the blueberry opening and to move forward with market openings for our exports grapes and cherries.
In terms of fishing, the Memorandum of Understanding on the Development of Mass Production Technology for Sea Bream and Sole Seeds from 2000 was recalled, through which the Mariculture Experimental Station that currently operates at INIDEP was built. In this context, the interest in generating scientific-technical and commercial links for the ctraining and transfer of knowledge and the implementation of productive projects for the Development of freshwater aquaculture and marine aquaculture.
The delegation from the Ministry of Agroindustry and the private sector delegation participated in a seminar on Argentine beef exports at the Argentine Embassy in Tokyo and held meetings with Japanese meat importing companies. Minister Etchevehere opened the event in front of importing companies grouped in the Japan Meat Traders Association (JMTA).
Notably In 2017, Japan recorded imports of fresh or chilled boneless beef worth more than US$1.900 billion, and more than US$1.100 billion worth of frozen boneless beef., which accounts for the attractiveness of this market for Argentine exports.
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— Luis M Etchevehere (@lmetcevehere) May 14th 2018
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