Pork exports fell 81.9% in the first semester

Pork exports fell 81.9% in the first semester

Despite the drop in shipments abroad, the sector’s imports exceeded 27,000 tons equivalent to beef on the bone, a mark “well above previous years.”

“To give magnitude to the above, we must consider that the increase compared to 2021 is 60%, opening the possibility that this year concludes with the largest imports of pork in more than a decadetaking into account that in 2011 pork was imported for almost 55,000 tons,” the BCR pointed out.

In this way, “The outflow of foreign exchange for these international purchases cannot be compensated with income from exports.”

In this sense, the deficit incurred in the first half of the year reached US$68 million “exceeding all records since 2014”, and it is estimated that it could reach US$156 million.

Source: Ambito

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