{"id":147419,"date":"2018-06-27T19:12:17","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T19:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/china-lifts-ban-on-british-beef-exports\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T19:12:17","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T19:12:17","slug":"china-lifts-ban-on-british-beef-exports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/english\/china-lifts-ban-on-british-beef-exports\/","title":{"rendered":"China lifts ban on British beef exports"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>                                  <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"British beef\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/1840E\/production\/_102224399_beef.jpg\"\/>Image copyright                  Getty Images                                                    <\/figure>\n<p class=\"caps\">China has ended a two-decades-long ban on exports of beef from the UK, first introduced after the outbreak of BSE - or &quot;mad cow disease&quot; - in the 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>The government said the development will be worth \u00a3250m to British producers over the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>It comes after years of site inspections and negotiations between UK and Chinese government officials.<\/p>\n<p>It now allows official market access negotiations to begin, a process which usually takes around three years.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes after Prime Minister Theresa May&#039;s trade mission to China earlier this year, during which President Xi Jinping signalled that a lifting of the beef ban would be happen soon.<\/p>\n<p>Chancellor Philip Hammond, who is visiting China this week, tweeted: &quot;This is great news for British farmers.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The UK currently sells more than \u00a3560m of food and drink from the farming sector a year to China, making it the eighth-biggest export market for such products.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Today&#039;s milestone will help to unlock UK agriculture&#039;s full potential and is a major step to forging new trading relationships around the globe,&quot; said a Department for Environment statement.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes two days after China signed a deal to lift a ban on French beef imposed more than a decade ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images China has ended a two-decades-long ban on exports of beef from the UK, first introduced after the outbreak of BSE - or &quot;mad cow disease&quot; -<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":147420,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freeonlinetranslators.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}