First shipment of Panama beef China bound

The first shipment of Panamanian beef, headed to the People’s Republic of China, under the Panama Exporta label  on Saturday, June 22.

By year end the country will send a total of 1,000 tons of bovine meat to the Asian giant.

In  May, the General Administration of China Customs (GAC,)  enabled the first customs code C-19 for the export of beef for the company Union Ganadera, SA, which will allow the entry ot bovine processed and exported by Panama to the Chinese market.

The process began in September 2017, with the visit of authorities of the Ministry of Quarantine and Agricultural Sanitation of China, with whom the authorities signed a memorandum of understanding to open roads of purchase and export of Panamanian fishery products to the Chinese market.

In September 2018, the sanitary protocols were signed, and  in October, customs authorities carried out inspections of the Panamanian meat, cobia and pineapple plan