Russia ready to buy Mexico’s annual beef export volume

MEXICO, Mar 17 (PRIME) -- Russia wants to buy a batch of Mexican beef totaling the country’s annual export volume, or 300,000 tonnes, Secretary of Agriculture Jose Eduardo Calzada Rovirosa said on Friday.

In February, the two countries came to a preliminary agreement to resume deliveries of Mexico-produced meet in exchange for wheat. The head of the National Service of Health, Safety and Agro-Food Quality (Senasica), Enrique Sanchez Cruz, told PRIME that about 200,000-400,000 tonnes of meat will be shipped.

“We plan to open a representative office of the Agricultural Ministry in Moscow in April. Russia has offered to buy 300,000 tonnes of beef from us, a volume comparable to the whole of Mexico’s stock export annually,” The Agriculture Ministry quoted Calzada Rovirosa as saying.

He added that negotiations on Russian wheat imports have been launched.

In December 2012, Russia’s Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Oversight restricted meat imports from Brazil, Mexico, Canada and the U.S. as the products contained ractopamine, a muscle mass growth stimulator banned in 160 countries including states of the Eurasian Economic Union and the European Union.

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