The National Health and Agri-food Quality Service (Senasa) allowed the export of the 7 popular cuts which had banned Kirchnerism from January 2022 to 31 December 2023.
According to a statement from the organization, this Sunday the effects of decree 911/2021 ended, with which the export of these beef cuts was suspended.
By virtue of the expiry of the law, the Senasa updated procedures to the new situation and adapted to new conditionsVeterinary inspection services and IT systems, especially export certification, which will come into force on the first day of next year.
This way it is now possible to export fresh, chilled or frozen cattle: whole cattle, half cattle, bone-in forequarters, bone-in hindquarters, incomplete bone-in half cattle and incomplete bone-in forequarters.
Also Argentinians’ 7 favorite cuts can be shipped abroad (fresh, chilled or frozen): roast with or without bone; skirt; matambre; roast cap, buttock; palette and emptiness.
The cumulative total for the first eleven months of 2023 reveals that overseas sales of refrigerated and frozen beef came close to 875,000 tonnes with a value of approximately $2,541 million.
Compared to the first eleven months of 2022, exported volumes are 5.9% higher, while the value obtained is 22.2% lower.
According to Mario Raverrino, president of the ABC Exporters Consortium, he announced – despite without official data – that 2023 will close with a volume of 920 thousand tons and a value close to 2.7 billion dollars.
“It was a good year in terms of volume and a very lean year in terms of foreign currency earnings”, summarized the president of the Consortium.
In any case he announced in an interview with Radio Cologne that there is”excellent prospects“for 2024 because the Government has informed the meat processing plants that in addition to the abolition of the ban on 7 cuts, Export affidavits and price observatories will be eliminateds, restrictions imposed by Alberto Fernández and highly criticized by the sector.
According to Ravettino, the volume that could be shipped is not important due to the 7 prohibited cuts. “It could mean 80,000 of the 920,000 tons. But it has a meaning that Argentina re-enters the world. The manufacturer can start producing because Argentina has possibilities,” he said.
Celebration
The mega bill presented by the Government includes a chapter dedicated to the meat sector which indicates this The licensing and operating regime of establishments will be regulated. where animals are slaughtered or products of animal origin are produced or stored, a measure appreciated by some bodies in the sector.
The consortium of ABC exporters, the Union of the Argentine Meat Industry (Unica) and the Federation of Regional Meat Industries of Argentina (Fifra) have expressed themselves in favor of the establishment of a Meat chapter which “proclaims a required reform by the sector for years, and which guarantees the health of Argentine consumers by establishing a National Health Statute and designating a health authority at federal level with the power to control the slaughter, processing and transport of bovine products and by-products throughout the national territory . “.
As pointed out by the entities, since Law 3959 of 1900, the powers of this law have been discussed and few have bothered to exercise it.
Source: Clarin
