Canada Reopens Market to Brazilian Chicken, Completing Post-Flu Trade Restoration

Overview

• Canada notified Brazil’s agriculture ministry of the decision, which the national poultry association ABPA confirmed.
• With Canada lifting its suspension, Brazil regains its last closed destination and fully normalizes chicken export flows.
• The Canadian halt followed a single high-pathogenic avian influenza case detected on May 16 in a commercial farm in Montenegro, Rio Grande do Sul.
• Brazilian authorities reported the event was contained and declared the country free of the outbreak by June 18.
• Major buyers resumed purchases in stages in recent months, with the European Union normalizing flows and China reopening shortly before Canada; ABPA credited coordinated government engagement led by minister Carlos Fávaro.