Pork, Poultry and Pangasius Discussions Show Breadth of Trans-Pacific Trade Deal
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VOLUME 10 / NUMBER 4 / FALL 2015 / QUARTERLY the newsmagazine for the food industry professional Pork, poultry and pangasius discussions show breadth of Trans-Pacific trade deal Canadian poultry, Mexican hogs and The deal’s roots reach back before 2009 (Above) President Barack Obama attends a Vietnamese seafood are just some sticking when Singapore, New Zealand and meeting with the Trans-Pacific Partnership at the APEC summit in Honolulu, Hawaii, Saturday, points up for negotiation in the Trans- Chile founded the Trans-Pacific Strategic Nov. 12, 2011. Source: White House.gov Pacific Trade Partnership (TPP) free trade Economic Partnership in 2005. The idea between the U.S. and 11 other countries. was to forge a multi-country FTA among those nations. By 2008, interest in such a Canada, Malaysia and Japan—to enter Six years in the making, the TPP is an deal stretched to Australia, Peru, Vietnam, into negotiations. attempt to strike a free trade agreement Brunei and the United States. In 2009 (FTA) among 12 nations in the Asia- the Obama Administration declared the Market access for goods, services, and Pacific region. In addition to the U.S., U.S.’s intent to move ahead with the agriculture is a major crux of FTA participating countries include: Australia, negotiations and it was around this time negotiations and is an essential element Canada, Brunei, Japan, Malaysia, the deal became known as the TPP. It of the TPP. But non-tariff matters such Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore would take another four years for the as technical barriers to trade and sanitary and Vietnam. remaining member countries—Mexico, Continued on page 64 DEADLY VIRUS KILLS MILLIONS OF CHICKENS AND TURKEYS High path AI: yesterday, today & tomorrow So here we are several months removed from the worst highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) reported and bird flu outbreak in U.S. history and there’s still 48 million birds affected in the United States. Of the no guarantee it’s over. No, we’re not predicting a 15 states where poultry findings were confirmed “doom and gloom” scenario for the near future, by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), but it is worth recapping where we’ve been Minnesota and Iowa had the most with 180 so that we have an idea as to where we might detections and over 40.7 million birds affected. be going. HPAI not only challenged the staying power of YESTERDAY the poultry and egg industries during this year, Over a six month period, from mid-December 2014 to mid-June 2015, there were 223 detections of ©sgame Continued on page 66 On the inside 38 Salmon seeing 42 Insight to 56 Consumers record levels. cost of gain. love burgers. No signs that Producers Report finds demand will need to be high beef prices stray from aware of don’t deter current trends. their true us from this production American staple. costs. 2 • URNER BARRY’S REPORTER / VOL. 10, NO. 4 / FALL 2015 URNER BARRY’S REPORTER • VOL. 10, NO. 4 • FALL 2015 Center of the plate the newsmagazine for the food industry professional Page 1 PUBLISHER Paul Brown Jr. Pork, poultry and pangasius discussions SENIOR EDITOR Russ Whitman show breadth of MANAGING EDITOR Trans-Pacific trade deal Joe Muldowney CONTRIBUTORS Sandra Bailey Russell Barton Nicole Bessemer Jamie Chadwick Julie Gallagher Page 1 Jim Kenny Bruce Longo Brian Moscogiuri High path AI: yesterday, Gary Morrison today & tomorrow James Patterson Michael Ramsingh Angel Rubio Adam Sharkey Bill Smith Curt Thacker Terence Wells Main ingredients News bites 6 Record costs driving interest in egg replacers 8 Muscolo Meat Academy COPY EDITORS Jamie Chadwick 10 Brazil and Argentina move closer to exporting 12 Technomic’s food industry Linda Lindner fresh beef to USA transformation: the next decade ART DIRECTOR 18 El Niño and the seafood industry 14 Plan will speed up inspections Glenn F. 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