Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 14.11.1996

Export Reporting for Meat and Meat Products

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is soliciting comments and views on a proposal by the Secretary of Agriculture to require reporting of export sales of meat (including poultry meat) and meat products. The proposal responds to a recommendation by the USDA Advisory Committee on Agricultural Concentration. Under the proposal, firms involved in exporting meat products could be required to report detailed information on these sales to the Department on a weekly basis. Compiled data would be made available to all market participants, giving farm-level producers and others timely access to information that many view as necessary to anticipate and plan for changing market conditions. The intent is to provide broad access to export sales information and to thereby improve efficiency in livestock and poultry markets.