In other words, for some time at least, the corridor of pig transit through Romania to the Republic of Moldova has apparently been closed.
In this context, it is worth mentioning that the Romanian government, together with the National Committee for Emergency Situations and the National Center for Disease Control, following an emergency meeting on FMD outbreaks in a number of EU countries held on March 11, decided to prohibit the traffic of vehicles transporting pigs between Hungary and Romania. Probably, the corridor was preserved for the transit of Hungarian pigs to the Republic of Moldova. As it turned out, temporarily.
The import of live pigs from the European Union for slaughter in Moldovan slaughterhouses was considered by local pork suppliers as a good way to make up for the upcoming shortage of pork on the Moldovan market due to the emergency slaughter of about 118 thousand pigs on the two largest pig farms in the country affected by African swine fever. In this regard, the fact that trade in live animals between the EU and the Republic of Moldova is liberalized (unlike imports of meat above duty-free quotas) was of great importance.
If the corridor of pig supplies to Moldova by transit through Romania closes for a long time, the Moldovan market will find itself without imported animals at all, since their supplies through Ukraine for quarantine reasons were stopped many years ago.
