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     1        Brazil and returned to Uruguay?
     2
     3   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  No, I think you have got again at
     4        cross-purposes.  What Mr. Morris was asking is why does it
     5        go to Brazil to be processed?
     6        A.  OK.  It goes to Brazil because in Uruguay it is a very
     7        small country.  We have a very limited number of
     8        restaurants.  That last, probably last time I was there
     9        were three.  It does not justify to have any plant with
    10        three restaurants, and Uruguay pass a lot of beef that is a
    11        player in the world market, and the people in Uruguay, for
    12        public relations, we do not want to import products to an
    13        exported country when it is beef, we do not want to import
    14        beef into Uruguay when Uruguay exports beef.
    15
    16   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  I think it is the first part of your answer
    17        which answered Mr. Morris' question.  There are only three
    18        restaurants, so it is not worth having a processing plant
    19        in Uruguay for that quantity.
    20
    21   MR. MORRIS:  So Opticarnes in Uruguay, Mondevedio, that is a
    22        process plant, is it not?
    23        A.  Which one?
    24
    25   Q.   Opticarnes in Uruguay.  If you remember, that was in the
    26        section on Malaysia which was actually D, section D.  It is
    27        the last document in D.  Yes?  You gave evidence on this
    28        already.
    29        A.  Yes.
    30
    31   Q.   They export to Malaysia and that is a process plant, yes?
    32        A.  No.  That is a slaughterhouse.  That has nothing to do
    33        with, not necessarily have anything to do with McDonald's,
    34        Uruguay.  They are a slaughterhouse where our people,
    35        McDonald's, Malaysia, bulk buys or at that time bought meat
    36        from.
    37
    38   Q.   So they do not buy it in pattie form ---
    39        A.  That is correct.
    40
    41   Q.   -- when they import from Uruguay?
    42        A.  That is correct.
    43
    44   Q.   If we move on to the Czech Republic next, if we move on, we
    45        have no questions on that.  Argentina is J, we have no
    46        questions on that.  Argentina, under "beef" it has a dash;
    47        do you know any countries that Argentinian beef is exported
    48        to from that Frigorifico?
    49        A.  Frigorifico, yes, Rioplatense.
    50 
    51   Q.   Sorry? 
    52        A.  Frigorifico Rioplatense. 
    53
    54   Q.   Yes, that is the name of the plant.  Do they export to
    55        Europe?  They are EC approved, are they not?
    56        A.  That is correct.  That is a big facility that has
    57        deboning as well as processing plants.  They themselves
    58        export to Europe to the EC.  It is EC approved facility.
    59        We have, just like in the case of Costa Rica, we have our
    60        lines, a McDonald's lines, where we process our patties.

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