China announced it will lift its ban on imports of poultry meat from the U.S., making official the plan that was announced by China’s Commerce Ministry in late October.
The measure has now been published by the country’s Customs Administration.
The move comes after USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) published a rule in the Federal Register that would allow cooked/processed poultry products from birds slaughtered in China to come into the U.S.
U.S. poultry has not had access to the Chinese market since the U.S. bird flu outbreak.
The market could result in around $1 billion or more in sales of U.S. poultry to China, particularly with demand for protein sources other than pork rising in the wake of African swine fever.
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