Seventeen U.S. states have been cleared to send raw poultry meat and meat products to China, according to the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) website.
The announcement comes after last week’s trade meetings in China between President Trump and President Xi Jinping.
The 17 states were among the 44 from which exports to China were banned for findings of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI).
Trade was made eligible to resume as of May 15, 2026.
The affected states are: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin. The other 27 states are still banned.
China had been a key market for U.S. poultry exports, but those have dwindled in recent years as China has not been lifting state level HPAI bans per the terms of a Regionalization Agreement signed in 2020. The agreement stipulates that if HPAI was detected in poultry, a statewide ban would be enforced for all products coming from the state of detection and the resumption of imports and exports would be approved 90 days post-virus elimination at all impacted premises in a state.China stopped adhering to this in August of 2022 due to increased political tensions, however.
China has agreed to follow the terms of the 2020 Regionalization Agreement and will now lift restrictions 90 days post cleaning and disinfection. China will then have five days after closeout reports are sent to review and lift the restrictions
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