The national government continues to advance in the Flexibility of meat exports vaccine with the aim of strengthening Argentina’s presence in international trade. In this context, a regulation was eliminated that imposed restrictions on the sector. This is Decree 322/1973, which prohibited the Export of standing cattle for consumption slaughter. This restriction was repealed with the publication of Decree 133/2025 In the Official Gazette during the early morning.
According to the Executive, the regulations in force for more than 50 years granted the then National Board of Meats the power to authorize the export of cattle standing only to bordering countries and Peru. In this context, the Government considered that such regulation constituted a restriction on exports, based on a vaccine meat marketing policy that entered into contradiction with Decree No. 70/23, oriented to economic deregulation.
Through this regulation, the government He eliminated the power of the State to impose import and export restrictions for economic purposes, with the aim of guaranteeing legal certainty to investors in the country.
In this context, it was established that the National State must “promote and ensure effective validity, throughout the territory, of an economic system based on free decisions, adopted in a framework of free competition, respecting private property and constitutional principles of free circulation of goods, services and work.” Likewise, it was recalled that one of the first measures of the libertarian administration established the “broader deregulation of trade, services and industry throughout the country”, eliminating any restriction to the supply of goods and services, as well as regulations that distort market prices, limit private initiative or interfere with spontaneous interaction between supply and demand.
Meat exports reached a historical record in 2024
This decision was made after, in 2024, Meat exports will reach a historical record, with a total of 629,949 tons Product weight (TN PP), which represented an increase of 11.8% compared to the previous year.
A report of the Chamber of Industry and Commerce of Meat and Derivatives of the Argentine Republic (Ciccra) He revealed that the fall in shipments to China, the main market of Argentine meat, generated a decrease in sales during December 2024. This decline was reflected both in the monthly and interannual comparison.
According to the organism data, the average price of exported vaccine registered a remarkable increase in the same period, reaching $ 5,168 per ton. This represented an increase of 13.5% compared to November and 23.2% compared to December 2023. The greatest price increases were observed in shipments to Germany, Netherlands, Spain and Brazil, where the ton exceeded US $ 10,000.
Despite the improvement in values, In December, 47,251 tons were exported product (TN PP), which meant a 13.4% drop in relation to November and 8.4% compared to the same month of the previous year. The main cause of this retraction was the 25.5% reduction in shipments to China, with a decrease of 10,300 TN PP. There were also more moderate descents in exports to key markets such as Italy, Netherlands, Mexico, Germany and Spain.
As a result, beef exports revenues in December 2024 reached 244.2 million dollars, according to Ciccra. This figure represented a slight fall of 1.8% compared to November, but a 12.8% growth compared to December 2023, which is equivalent to an increase of US $ 27.8 million.
Source: Ambito
