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China set to lift embargo on Brazilian meat, official says

Brazilian Agriculture Minister Neri Geller said on Tuesday that beef exports to China and Saudi Arabia would resume next month after an embargo on Brazilian meat products by the two countries ends. Neri said exports to China are expected to resume earlier, by the first half of December, adding that China decided to lift the embargo during the G20 summit in Australia, which was attended by both Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and Chinese President Xi Jinping. Saudi Arabia plans to send a delegation of specialists to inspect Brazil's meat packing plants next week, before officially authorizing beef imports to start in the second half of December. Both countries suspended Brazilian beef imports in 2012, following an atypical case of mad cow disease in the South American nation.

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