The Ministry of Agriculture (Mapa) changed, this Monday (16), the inspection procedures adopted for soybean shipments destined for China, responding to a request from trading companies that export the oilseed to the Asian country. Last week, the Cargill It reported that it has suspended soybean exports from Brazil to China following changes to the phytosanitary inspection process adopted by the Brazilian government. In addition to that, the Cofco International and CHS Agribusiness They also reported problems with ship shipments. The change establishes that the soybean samples to be inspected will be collected by the shipping supervision companies themselves (contracted by the trading companies), and no longer by the ministry's agricultural inspectors. However, one in ten shipments will continue to have samples collected by the ministry's inspectors. The new rules will be adopted immediately for all shipments for which samples have not yet been collected for analysis. Between March 20 and 29, Representatives from MAPA will travel to China. to discuss phytosanitary issues related to agricultural trade, in addition to participating in the 10th Meeting of the Subcommittee on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Issues and the 7th Meeting of the Subcommittee on Agriculture of the Sino-Brazilian High-Level Commission for Coordination and Cooperation.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.