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Emergency measure: Colombia

Resolution No. 34883 of 2025 'By which the issuance of animal health import documents (DZI) for swine products and by-products originating from the Federal Republic of Germany is temporarily suspended due to the presence of the African Swine Fever (ASF) virus in wild animals and other provisions are dictated'

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Resolución No. 34883 de 2025 'Por la cual se suspende temporalmente la emisión de documentos zoosanitarios de importación (DZI) para productos y subproductos de origen porcino procedentes de la República Federal de Alemania ante la presencia del virus de la Peste Porcina Africana (PPA) en animales silvestres y se dictan otras disposiciones' (Resolution No. 34883, of 2025, temporarily suspending the issuance of animal health import documents (DZI) for products and by-products of swine coming from

Colombia notified this emergency SPS measure on 6 January 2026. Emergency measures can apply immediately.

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At a glance

Products

Products and by-products of swine

HS codes
  • 02 · Meat and edible meat offal
    • 0203 Meat of swine, fresh, chilled or frozen
    • 0206 Edible offal of bovine animals, swine, sheep, goats, horses, asses, mules or hinnies, fresh, chilled or frozen
    • 02101 Meat of swine:
  • 16 · Meat, fish, crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or insects; preparations thereof
    • 16024 Of swine:
  • 41 · Raw hides and skins (other than furskins) and leather
    • 410330 Raw hides and skins of swine, fresh, or salted, dried, limed, pickled or otherwise preserved, whether or not dehaired or split (excl. tanned…
    • 41063 Of swine:
    • 411320 Leather further prepared after tanning or crusting 'incl. parchment-dressed leather', of pigs, without hair on, whether or not split (excl. chamois leather…
Notifying member
Colombia
Status
Emergency measure, may already apply
Objectives
  • Animal health
Area
SPS: Food safety, animal and plant healthSanitary and phytosanitary measures
Notification type
Emergency notifications (SPS)
Document symbol
G/SPS/N/COL/409
Keywords
Pest- or Disease- free Regions / Regionalization, Animal health, Animal diseases, African swine fever (ASF)

Key dates

Distributed by the WTO
Comment deadline
Not set in the notification
Proposed adoption
Not set in the notification
Proposed entry into force

How to comment

The notification sets no comment deadline. To comment, contact your country's WTO SPS enquiry point, quoting the document symbol G/SPS/N/COL/409; it forwards comments to Colombia.

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What the notification says

Resolution No. 34883 of 2025 temporarily suspends the issuance of animal health import documents (DZI) for products and by-products of swine coming from Germany that do not comply with the provisions of Section 15, Chapter 15.1, Article 15.1.2 of the WOAH Terrestrial Animal Health Code, and with the conditions established under Resolution No. 1183 of the Andean Community for the various products.

Sources

Expodite writes its summary from the official record. The notification and the documents it notifies are on the WTO's own websites.

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