The main producer and exporter of pork in the EU. Since the Ministry of Agriculture announced on Friday that two wild boars had died from African swine fever in Barcelona, a disease that had not been detected in Spain since 1994, the consequences have been increasing. So far, 19 countries have decided to veto the entry of Spanish pork, while another 24 have decided only from the affected area in Barcelona. The Coordinator of Farmers and Livestock Organizations (COAG), one of the main organizations in the primary sector, assures that the ministry has not yet provided the list of all the markets that have only prohibited the purchase of pork from the affected area because this department “is closing the open bilateral negotiations with all countries, so until there is 100% confirmation, no more data will be given.”
These are the 19 countries that have banned the purchase of Spanish pork:
- Brazil
- Canada
- Chile
- Colombia
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Ecuador
- USA
- Japan
- Mexico
- Malaysia
- Peru
- South Africa
- Thailand
- Uruguay
- Venezuela
Sales of the pork sector reached 8,783 million euros in 2024, of which approximately 1,100 million were purchases made by China. Minister Luis Planas said this Monday that the Asian power will continue importing Spanish pork except for that from the province of Barcelona, where all the cases detected so far are found. A total of 24 countries are in the same situation as China, but, at the moment, only these five are known:
- China
- Filipinas
- South Korea
- Serbia
- United Kingdom
