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Iara Lima

Iara Lima is a market reporter covering agriculture at S&P Global Commodity Insights in London.

Oct 9, 2026

4:25
Can you explain how ASF affects market access?
4:30
Yes.
4:31
So regionalization has really become one of the key issues that market participants are monitoring literally on a daily basis.
4:39
So in practice, what it determines is whether an exporter can continue shipping product from unaffected regions like in their country or whether the access to an entire market is suddenly lost overnight.
4:51
So for Spanish exporters, that uncertainty creates a very difficult commercial environment.
4:56
Even before official restrictions are implemented, buyers often start to behave in a more cautious way.
5:03
Contracts can take longer to negotiate and exporters may spend like a lot more time reassuring their customers that there will be supply continuity.

6 MINS LATER

11:10
And from conversations with producers,

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