{"id":115020,"date":"2021-02-24T16:13:01","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T08:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=115020"},"modified":"2021-02-24T16:13:02","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T08:13:02","slug":"halal-chicken-dispute-blocks-brazil-indonesia-free-trade-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=115020","title":{"rendered":"Halal chicken dispute blocks Brazil\/Indonesia free trade talks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mercopress.com\/data\/cache\/noticias\/80283\/0x0\/pollo.jpg\"><img src=\"https:\/\/en.mercopress.com\/data\/cache\/noticias\/80283\/760x480\/pollo.jpg\" alt=\"Brazil, the world's largest halal chicken exporter, requested WTO consultations with Indonesia in 2014 concerning measures blocking its access to that market.\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>BRASILIA, Feb 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Brazil should only begin free trade talks with Indonesia if it adopts recommendations made by a World Trade Organization panel in 2017 after a dispute over halal chicken, Brazil&#8217;s meat lobby ABPA said in a letter sent to three government ministries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe don&#8217;t oppose a free trade agreement with Indonesia,\u201d Ricardo Santin, head of ABPA, said with reference to the letter sent to the ministries of foreign relations, economy and agriculture on Jan 26. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said there should be \u201cno border for food\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brazil, the world&#8217;s largest halal chicken exporter, requested WTO consultations with Indonesia in 2014 concerning measures blocking its access to that market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brazil won the dispute, but Indonesia requested \u201ca reasonable period of time\u201d to adopt its recommendations and in December last year appealed to the WTO&#8217;s appellate body, further delaying the prospect of the recommendations being adopted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ABPA has said Indonesia&#8217;s chicken industry would benefit from more competition. Indonesians eat almost 12 kilos per person per year, about four times less than Brazilians, and domestic chicken prices are high, it said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CP Indonesia, also known as PT Charoen Pokphand Indonesia, is Indonesia&#8217;s largest producer of processed chicken, day-old chicks and poultry feed, industry website WATTPoultry.com said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Welber Barral, legal counsel to ABPA, said Indonesia is on a list of nations, published by the government in 2021, with which Brazil aims to discuss free trade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCompliance with multilateral obligations is an element to be considered in the bilateral relationship of any country with Brazil and Mercosur,\u201d Barral said. &#8212; NNN-MERCOPRESS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRASILIA, Feb 24 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Brazil should only begin free trade talks with Indonesia if it adopts recommendations made by a World Trade Organization panel in 2017 after a dispute over halal chicken, Brazil&#8217;s meat lobby ABPA said in a letter sent to three government ministries. \u201cWe don&#8217;t oppose a free trade agreement with Indonesia,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":115021,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208,215],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115020"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}