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澳大利亞悉尼——澳大利亞即將與中國簽訂活牛出口協(xié)議，為供應(yīng)商打開一個(gè)重要市場。供應(yīng)商們稱，由于受到中國對(duì)新鮮牛肉的需求的推動(dòng)，每年的活牛出口量可能會(huì)增長到100萬頭。
該協(xié)議可能最終會(huì)使澳大利亞的活牛出口量增加一倍。供應(yīng)商稱，這可能會(huì)在澳大利亞國內(nèi)，以及包括印度尼西亞、越南在內(nèi)的其他活牛進(jìn)口國，加劇牛肉市場的競爭，進(jìn)而推高價(jià)格。
澳大利亞農(nóng)業(yè)部長巴納比·喬伊斯(Barnaby Joyce)周五在塔姆沃思對(duì)記者表示，“我們即將宣布一項(xiàng)對(duì)澳大利亞牛肉產(chǎn)業(yè)相當(dāng)重要的消息。”塔姆沃思位于悉尼以北，是一個(gè)農(nóng)業(yè)中心。
他表示，澳中兩國的檢疫人員為這項(xiàng)出口協(xié)議已經(jīng)努力了大約10年，而且這份出口協(xié)議并不屬于澳中兩國之間，談判已經(jīng)進(jìn)入最后一輪的一項(xiàng)貿(mào)易協(xié)定。
澳大利亞牲畜出口商委員會(huì)(Australian Livestock Exporters’ Council)首席執(zhí)行官艾利森·彭福爾德(Alison Penfold)表示，業(yè)內(nèi)官員及政府官員在過去12月里，就這項(xiàng)協(xié)議密集地開展工作。協(xié)議的達(dá)成取決于中國國家質(zhì)量監(jiān)督檢驗(yàn)檢疫總局。彭福爾德表示，最后的障礙是，澳方要滿足通常適用于活體動(dòng)物出口的衛(wèi)生要求，其中涉及確保活牛無病、檢測、檢疫期，以及壁虱等寄生蟲的處理。
喬伊斯說，“這明顯是一個(gè)重要的市場信號(hào)。”他還表示，“牛的價(jià)格會(huì)上漲，這是好事。”他指的是，隨著出口需求推高國內(nèi)市場及現(xiàn)有海外市場上牛肉的價(jià)格，供應(yīng)商們希望價(jià)格能從每公斤兩澳元（約合10.6元人民幣）提高到三澳元以上。
澳大利亞每年向印度尼西亞、越南、以色列出口大約113萬頭牛，價(jià)值8.6億美元，而且澳大利亞最近也與柬埔寨達(dá)成了協(xié)議。北領(lǐng)地養(yǎng)牛業(yè)協(xié)會(huì)(Northern Territory Cattlemen’s Association)會(huì)長戴維·沃里納(David Warriner)警告稱，對(duì)中國的出口將會(huì)慢慢增加，需要一段時(shí)間才能達(dá)到100萬頭。
出口商則比較樂觀。
“我們最大的市場是印度尼西亞，”澳大利亞最大的私人牲畜出口公司W(wǎng)ellard的老板莫羅·巴爾扎里尼(Mauro Balzarini)說。“我們希望等中國市場打開了，就不只出口活牛，也會(huì)在北京等地方建立加工肉類的合資企業(yè)。”該公司每年收購并出口大約40萬頭牛，主要銷往印度尼西亞和越南。（中國進(jìn)出口網(wǎng)）
SYDNEY, Australia — Australia is close to signing an agreement to ship live cattle to China, opening up a significant market for producers, who said exports could grow to 1 million animals a year, driven by demand there for fresh beef.
The agreement could eventually result in a doubling of Australia's export volumes for live cattle. It is likely to increase competition for beef and help lift prices, both in the domestic market and among other buyers of the country's live cattle, including Indonesia and Vietnam, producers said.
“We are on the cusp of a new major announcement for the Australian beef industry,” Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce told reporters Friday in Tamworth, an agricultural center north of Sydney.
He said that quarantine officials in Australia and China had worked for about 10 years on the export agreement and that the deal was separate from a trade agreement that is in the final round of negotiations between the two countries.
Alison Penfold, chief executive of the Australian Livestock Exporters' Council, said industry and government officials had worked intensively on the agreement during the past 12 months. Completion of the deal rests with the Chinese General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine. The final hurdles involve Australia's meeting health protocols commonly applied to live exports, including disease-free cattle, testing, quarantine periods and treatment for parasites like ticks, Penfold said.
“This is obviously a big market signal,” Joyce said. He added: “You're about to be paying more for cattle, and this is good,” referring to producers' hopes that the price of beef would rise from around 2 Australian dollars a kilogram — a bit less than $0.80 a pound — to above 3 Australian dollars, as demand for exports squeezes prices higher in domestic and existing offshore markets.
Australia exports about 1.13 million cattle a year, worth about $860 million, to Indonesia, Vietnam and Israel, and an agreement was recently reached with Cambodia. Warriner cautioned that the exports to China would build slowly and take some time to reach 1 million.
Exporters were more upbeat.
“Our biggest market is Indonesia,” said Mauro Balzarini, owner of Australia's largest privately owned cattle exporting company, Wellard, which buys and ships about 400,000 head of cattle mostly to Indonesia and Vietnam each year. “We hope once the market in China opens up, we won't just export live cattle, but we will have joint ventures as well for processing, in places like Beijing.”
