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<p>The UK is committed to working with China to improve market access and strengthen
the trade relationship, including for trade of poultry meat. We recognise that there
are clear potential benefits to carcass balance of poultry meat from trading with
China. However, we are still unable to export live poultry, due to a ban which China
imposed following outbreaks of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) that occurred
in the UK in poultry from 2014-2017.</p><p> </p><p>We have achieved a number of positive
steps towards lifting the ban, and once the ban is lifted, we can progress to resuming
live exports of poultry which was an open export market prior to the implementation
of the ban.</p><p> </p><p>Following re-opening of pre-existing trade, we can then
undertake the longer process of opening a brand-new market for the poultry sector,
namely poultry meat exports, which would add additionally opportunities for industry
to benefit from carcass balance in the future.</p>
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