Brazil aims to ease chicken trade bans in coming weeks, minister says

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04/06/2025 14:39

BRASILIA, June 4 (Reuters) - Brazil hopes to significantly ease trade restrictions on its chicken exports later this month, after a four-week observation period following a bird flu outbreak on a commercial farm in mid-May, Agriculture Minister Carlos Favaro said Wednesday.

Some 21 countries have imposed country-wide restrictions on chicken imports from Brazil, Favaro told reporters, adding that a number of importers, including China and the European Union, are in talks to limit the geographic scope of the trade bans.

 (Reporting by Lisandra Paraguassu
Writing by Oliver Griffin
Editing by Brad Haynes)

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