7 March 2024

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EU rooster meat imports elevated by 2% in 2023 and are anticipated to additional enhance by 3.5% in 2024, based on a latest US Division of Agriculture (USDA) International Agricultural Data Community (GAIN) report. The European resort, restaurant and establishment sector accounts for the biggest share of imported rooster.

Imports from Brazil stagnated in 2023, whereas imports from United Kingdom fell by 20% because the EU imposed strict sanitary controls following Brexit. Imports from Thailand additionally confronted elevated competitors from Ukraine.

EU imports of Ukrainian rooster meat grew by greater than 50% in 2023. Clearly, this commerce continues to profit from EU regulation 2023/1077 which renewed short-term commerce concessions beneath the Deep and Complete Free Commerce Settlement (DCTA) of 2011. Underneath this EU Regulation, Ukrainian rooster meat is eligible to enter the European market with out tariffs or quotas. This measure is short-term and, until it’s prolonged, it would expire on June 5, 2024. Some EU international locations corresponding to Poland have already requested the EU to impose limits rooster meat imports from Ukraine.