Beef exports grew nearly 20% in volume in January and generated 11% more foreign exchange after market liberalization implemented by Javier Milei’s government.
Beef exports reached a volume close to 61.2 thousand tons of chilled and frozen beef products worth approximately $235.3 million.
Compared to the month of December, the volumes shipped showed a slight decrease of 0.4%; while the value obtained highlights a moderate progress, equal to 3.6%.
But compared to the same month in 2023, Exported volumes grew by 19.2% while the value obtained was 11.9% higher.
China was the main export destination in the first month of the year, which represent almost 80% of the total. 11.9 thousand tonnes of bone-in and bone-in beef were shipped to the Asian giant, worth 19.3 million dollars, and 36.6 thousand tonnes of boneless beef, worth 123.6 million of dollars.
Starting in January, theRefrigerators can export the 7 most popular cuts which were banned for two years, a measure promoted by the government of Alberto Fernández and which ended on December 31st.
In this context, the representatives of the Argentine Meat Exporters Consortium (ABC) met this Monday with the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo and the General Secretary of Coordination, Dr. Juan Pazo and thanked him
“Argentina has enormous potential to enter the international market as a supplier of high-quality beef, committed to environmental sustainability and food safety, fully meeting the requirements demanded by demanding customers from abroad,” he said. Mario RavettinoPresident of the ABC Consortium.
Likewise, this Monday the Israeli Veterinary and Health Service (Ivsah, for its acronym in English), sent to the National Service for Health and Agri-Food Quality (Senasa) its agreement to promote the export of beef and kosher sheep on the bone. from Argentina.
Through a note signed by the veterinary director of imports and exports of Isvath, Shlomo Garazi, it was indicated that IsraelArgentina considered it as a country suitable for exporting bone-in meat from the entire national territory“, and expressed his agreement to broaden the scope of the current International Veterinary Certificate (CVI) for the shipment of boneless meat of the same species and offal to add kosher bone-in beef.
Recalculation
The National Directorate of Animal Production of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries has decided to correct the methodology for calculating foreign sales and per capita consumption of beef.
According to the official statement, this methodological revision of the calculation of beef exports, adjusting its composition for the period 2019-2023, they allowed us to find relevant numerical differences.
Exports in 2023 closed at 852,806 thousand tonnes of bone-in equivalent beef against the 963,690 tonnes calculated before the methodological correction. With the adjusted series, beef exports grew 6% and 17% from 2022 and 2021 records, respectively, but showed a 4% decline from 2020 volume.
Sales of bones resulting from deboning (bones with meat) have grown significantly since July 2019, recording a volume of 111 thousand tonnes of produced weight in 2023. A specific tariff position was created in mid-March 2021, called “Other bones resulting from deboning”, which allows their differentiation.
Source: Clarin
