# US pushes China to reopen poultry imports as Brazil suffers - Food & Agribusiness

> The US is pressing China to reopen its market to US poultry, a ban in place since the January 2015 avian influenza outbreak. Brazil's poultry sector is suffering from EU bans and a prolonged truckers' strike that has disrupted feed deliveries.

- Date: 2018-06-01 · published 2018-06-01T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: trade · region China · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/64665-us-pushes-china-to-reopen-poultry-imports-as-brazil-suffers-food-and
- Commodities: [Chicken](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CHICKEN.md)

## Why it matters

A Chinese reopening would add US poultry supply to a market dependent on Brazil, while Brazil's feed-delivery disruption shows logistics risk to its chicken output and feed demand.

## Read by commodity

- CHICKEN: neutral

## Sources

- foodagribusiness.world: https://www.foodagribusiness.world/poultry/us-pushes-china-to-reopen-poultry-imports-as-brazil-suffers

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