Shipments of German pork to the Republic of Korea (South Korea) are now possible again after a two-and-a-half-year ban following the first evidence of African swine fever (ASF) in Germany. The first three German slaughter and processing plants have been re-approved by the Korean authorities for export to South Korea. The Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) had made intensive efforts to conclude a regionalization agreement in order to resume trade from the unaffected regions of Germany.
This key sales market in the Asian region has thus been reopened for German pork. As recently as 2019, the Republic of Korea imported about 106,000 tons of pork from Germany, including about 41,000 tons of pork belly. At just under 298 million euros, Korea was the second-largest buyer of pork from Germany among third countries that year.
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