As of last Monday there are no longer restrictions on the export of bovine cuts. From January the refrigeration industry will be able to return to export the so-called “preferred cuts fresh, chilled or frozen” that were prohibited for shipment abroad by the Decree 911/2021which prohibited shipments of barbecue cuts.
The National Agri-Food Health and Quality Service (Senasa) stated in a statement that “as of January 1, 2024, the export of fresh bovine cuts and the so-called fresh, chilled or frozen preferred cuts,” to the validity of the regulations adopted by the government of Alberto Fernández ends.
Export: which cuts are no longer prohibited
This decree prohibited the export of “whole cattle; half cattle; front quarter with bone; hind quarter with bone; incomplete half cattle with bone; and incomplete front quarters with bone.”
In addition, he also closed the offices of the so-called “grill cuts” either “popular”as the roast with or without bone; skirt; matambre; roast lid; buttock; pallette; and empty.”
The differentiation will also cease to have effect for the export of cows of categories D and E and bullsto which until now these suspensions do not apply, the letter added.
“By virtue of the expiration of the norm, Senasa updated the procedures to the new situation and adapted to the new conditions the veterinary inspection services and the computer systems, particularly the export certification system, which will come into effect as of the first day of next year,” the letter concluded.
Meat exports: what was 2023 like?
Mario Ravettinopresident of the ABC Consortium, stated that beef export during 2023 concluded with “a good year in volume, with sales abroad of about 920 thousand tons of bone-in beef, which is an important number. The volume obtained is slightly higher by 5% than that registered in 2022.”
Likewise, the benchmark for the exporting refrigerator segment that concludes “a year very meager foreign exchange incomesince the values offered by the international market are low: this is how sales abroad for 2,730 million dollars will be finalized in 2023.”
Ravettino assured that since The sector “maintains expectations (to improve) the volume in 2024” after having been notified days ago from the official sphere of “the culmination of the decree prohibiting the export of the seven cuts, and also of the sworn export declarations and the Price Observatory, and of all the obstacles that the sector had” .
Source: Ambito
