Exporters of embryos and semen from Canadian sheep and goats can expect to see up to $250,000 in added revenue over the next five years now that Turkey has again approved their products for import.
Advancing trade with other countries in this region has been at the “forefront” for Canadian producers, the federal government said in a release Tuesday, as Turkey is viewed as a “priority and emerging market.”
“Successful expansion of the Turkish market will also result in better awareness of Canadian products and services in the surrounding countries, leading to potential new market opportunities,” the government said.
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“The demand in Turkey for Canadian sheep and goat genetics is growing, so the resolution of the interruption in technical market access came at a crucial time,” Rick McRonald, president of the Canadian Livestock Genetics Association (CLGA), said in the same release.
Canada’s access to Turkey has been “on-again, off-again” for several years, he said in an interview, as Turkey has accepted the Canadian product but then changed its conditions for import permits.
The most recent pause in trade, before the two countries’ agreement on this new certificate, has run since the fall of 2010, McRonald said Tuesday.
Near-term, only two or three exporters will be set to ship using the new certificate, he said, but those exporters will be sourcing genetics from a wider pool of Canadian producers.
Those exporters, he said in the government’s release. “will now be able to engage with their Turkish clients and partners in the confidence that technical barriers to trade in semen and embryos have been removed.”
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