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The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has confirmed the number of beef processing plants in the United States whose licenses to ship products to China have expired and have not been renewed.
On Sunday (16), the authorizations of hundreds of American meatpacking plants to export chicken, pork and beef to China expired, and amid the tariff war, there was speculation that they would not be renewed.
China’s General Administration of Customs (GACC) has not renewed registrations for approximately 386 of the 654 U.S. establishments previously registered to export beef and beef products to China.
According to the USDA report, China Customs has not responded to the US Department’s requests to extend the date in the “Expiration Date” data field and the above-mentioned US beef and beef products exporting establishments now have their facilities listed as “overdue” in the “Foreign Manufacturers of Imported Food Registration Information” or CIFER system.
On Monday (17), GACC announced five-year facility rehabilitations for two U.S. pork establishments and approximately 71 U.S. poultry establishments that were in arrears as of February 19, as well as 14 dairy establishments, seven that were in arrears in early February and seven that were reported to be in arrears in April.
The Asian giant's Customs also renewed for five years the remaining pork (363) and poultry (139) establishments that were in arrears.
“When GACC extended the renewal dates for U.S. pork, poultry, and dairy establishments listed in the CIFER system, the renewals were made so that there would be no gaps in the validity of the export facility’s registration. In other words, even though the facility may have expired on February 19, the renewals made in March covered the entire period since the registration expired, and products slaughtered or manufactured between the period when the facility expired and when the extension was issued remain eligible for export to China,” the USDA report noted.
