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India concerned at South Africa suspending
buffalo meat imports
Monday January 14, 2013 07:56:56 PM,
IANS
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Johannesburg: India Monday voiced concern to South
Africa at the suspension of frozen boneless buffalo meat imports
from the country.
Commerce Minister Anand Sharma told South African Minister of
Trade and Industry, Rob Davies, that the imports be looked into as
Indian meat conforms to the highest international norms and
standards, said an official.
After granting market access to deboned frozen boneless buffalo
meat by approving one abattoir-cum-meat processing unit in
Maharashtra in January, 2011, South Africa suspended imports in
May 2011.
Both ministers here reviewed the India-South African Custom Union
(SACU) Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) negotiations and agreed
on the need for its early finalisation.
Both sides have instructed their officials to meet and thrash out
the differences.
Sources said the South African Customs Union (SACU), where member
countries have to engage in a time-consuming process of
consultation on tariff request lists, is one of the reasons for
trade with India not moving faster.
Sharma urged Davies to expedite SACU's response to India's
proposal of average Margin of Preference (MOP) in the PTA so that
the two countries can finalise the tariff lists and take the
negotiations forward.
Besides South Africa, SACU, the world's oldest customs union
established in 1910, is made up of Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia and
Swaziland.
India and South Africa are currently well placed to reach the
bilateral trade target of $15 billion well before the deadline of
2014. Two-way trade rose to $13.65 billion in 2011 from $10.53
billion in 2010.
Both countries, members of the BRICS grouping, also agreed to
coordinate stances on World Trade Organisation (WTO) issues.
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