Posted March 19, 2010

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk announced last night that the United States and China have reached an agreement to reopen the Chinese market to U.S. pork imports.

Pork trade will resume immediately once both sides finalize export documentation and it should help struggling U.S. pork producers, said the National Pork Producers Council.

The Asian nation closed its market to U.S. pork in late April in the wake of a human outbreak of novel H1N1 influenza, which the media misnamed “swine flu.”


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