Of the 25 production plants requested for its habilitation, El Salvador enabled 11, while the approval of the other 14 are in the process of being studied. Lupinacci stressed that, from this flexibility, other countries of Central America Commercial opening procedures could begin by taking the sanitary status of Uruguay as a reference.
Since February 4, there was an inflow of foreign currency for $158 million in meat placements, having as main destinations Canada, China, USA, Israel, Japanhe mercosur, Mexicohe United Kingdom and the European Union.
The application procedure for the approval of the sanitary certificate began with a request from the private sector, and after six months of coordination between the MGAP International Affairs Unit, the Ministry of Foreign Affairshe National Meat Institute (INAC) and the embassies involved, this agreement was reached.
Uruguay obtained several export permits to Central America in 2022, such as biomass and hemp flowers —for non-medicinal use— to Costa Rica, the opening of trade for the placement of paddy rice in Guatemalaand vessels of honey and its derivatives, destined for Honduras. For his part, Dominican Republicacquired access to the purchase of standing equines from Uruguay.
Source: Ambito
