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Fernando Pérez Abella, Vicepresident of INAC, evaluated the results of the official visit Uruguayan delegates paid to the Korean Republic as highly positive, considering the high level of the interlocutors who received them.
Currently Korea imports thermoprocessed beef from Uruguay and the opening of this market for fresh beef is one of the priorities established by INAC for this administration.
The Korean market was closed to our meat products following the FMD outbreak in the year 2000 and in 2006 Uruguay managed to re-open it to export thermoprocessed meat.
Perez Abella said that the traceability system places Uruguayan beef in the vanguard of added value. He also stated that steps taken to get authorization to export fresh beef to the Korean Republic were excellent because negotiations were made with high hierarchy officials. "We are looking for market niches where we can place beef at the best possible price", he emphasized.
He also stated: "We had the opportunity to talk with the Prime Minister of the Korean Republic, to whom we stated the need to obtain authorization to export Uruguayan beef to that market".
He said that this official visit is framed within the context of several sanitary steps taken previously. He thinks that Uruguay should not have any sanitary difficulties to enter the Korean market since the country already exports to highly demanding markets such as Mexico and the United States.
"Korea and Japan are the only markets yet to be opened", Perez Abella said.
