The first sale of tripe materialized, consolidating Uruguay as a leader in exports of meat byproducts.
Uruguay completed the first exports from tripe to China, which meant the opening of a new market, within the framework of the strategic association achieved last year after the visit of the president Luis Lacalle Pou to the Asian giant.
This sale represents a milestone in the placements of meat by-products, with an estimated income of 40 million dollars annually, according to the calculations of the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries (MGAP), as well as a new step in the growing relationship with China.
The MGAP confirmed that there are now 6 meat processing plants authorized to make sales to the Asian market, while the audit process, which began in February, continues. As for the first placement, the tripe corresponded to the meat processing plants. Pando, Las Piedras and Copayan.
It is worth noting that, according to the foreign trade report of Uruguay XXI, The placements of meat by-products grew by 21% in May and represented sales of 50 million dollars, a good part of them (16 million) towards USA.
The opening of markets with China continues
Tripe is not the first product that the country began to export to the Asian giant this year, since in mid-April the first shipment of frozen boneless horse meat was completed, on that occasion from the meat processing plant. Clay.
On that occasion, the head of the MGAP, Fernando Mattos, He highlighted the “milestone” that the operation represented and considered that “very important commercial perspectives are opened up through this shipment.”
That same month, China It also enabled the health certificates that allowed the export of bovine stomachs (not just tripe) to move forward from several meat packing plants, which were previously registered in the China Import Food Enterprises Registration (Cifer) system, such as Arbiza, BPU, Colonia, Copayan, Las Piedras and Pando.
“We are the first country that is authorized to export the four bovine stomachs,” said the director of the International Affairs Unit (UAI) of the MGAP, Adriana Lupinacci.
Source: Ambito
