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Romania-China negotiations over Romanian agri-food exports to China reach advanced stage
Romania-China negotiations over Romanian agri-food exports to China, have reached an advanced stage. So far, Romanian bovine genetic material and bovine embryos are being approved for exportation to China, but a slaughterhouse has approved for the export of frozen pork.
According to a press statement released by Romania's National Sanitary Veterinary and Food Safety Authority (ANSVSA) on Wednesday, ANSVSA Chairman Geronimo Branescu participates, June 8-10, 2018 - with a delegation of ANSVSA specialists - in at the third edition of a conference on quality supervision, inspection and quarantine in Ningbo, China. The invitation to participate was addressed to ANSVSA by China's General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine (AQSIQ).
"This conference is designed by organisers to strengthen co-operation with the food safety and animal and plant quarantine organisations of the countries along the new Silk Road, and in particular with the Central and Eastern European Countries, in order to develop agri-food import-export relations between China and the CEE countries," according to ANSVSA.
Specialists from several countries are attending the conference, with other countries being represented alongside Romania, including Lithuania, Croatia, Poland, Slovenia, Poland, Ukraine and Bulgaria.
"The participation of ANSVSA representatives in this conference is important, both for the continuation of the bilateral technical discussions on accelerating the ongoing export procedures, and also because this year business representatives are invited as well,' according to the press statement.
So far, Romanian bovine genetic material and bovine embryos are being approved for exportation to China, but a slaughterhouse has approved for the export of frozen pork, and advanced negotiations are underway over the export of honey, frozen poultry meat, mutton and beef, milk and dairy products, fish and fish products and processed meat products.
At the end of November 2017, ANSVSA Chairman Geronimo Branescu and Minister of General Administration for Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of the People's Republic of China (AQSIQ) Zhi Shuping signed a protocol on sanitary and phytosanitary conditions for export of Romanian alfalfa to China.