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Mercosur costs and growing domestic demand limit beef export volumes
With stronger local currencies Mercosur main beef exporters, Brazil and Uruguay are finding it more profitable to supply their domestic markets than exporting, in spite of growing international demand. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesSo, if I have it correct, Uruguayan and Brasilian beef is too pricey to export to the EU, but the producers can get a good price supplying the home market, though this leaves surplus abbatoir capacity therefore some job loss.
Apr 11th, 2011 - 01:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The EU can make do without SA beef, and, once relative monitory values have stabilised at new levels (assuming there will be stabilisation), overseas importers can buy at home price+ export costs+ mark-up, with trade reciprocality as part of the overall deal.
Beef is very acidic food ! 50-60 kg/per capita is very excessive !
Apr 11th, 2011 - 02:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I consume ~20 kg/beef /year...~10 kg/fish/year...~15 kg/chicken/year.
~6 kg/mutton/year .....~250/eggs/year . .....I am very healthy.
And to correct geoff,they produce beef in Europe with huughe subsidies,not to mention the enormous queantity of fertilizer,used in Europe,much larger than any SA countries.With the price of oil rising,then the cost of fertilizer s will rise.There is no way,Europe can compite with SA,not a chance.
Apr 12th, 2011 - 02:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0T E #3
Apr 12th, 2011 - 10:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0you misunderstand my posting:
The *EU* nations are the overseas importers that will pay these costs; the Irish beef farmers etc are worried that these cost (home price in Brasil, P, U, Argentina+export costs + mark-up) will be cheaper than the price they produce at+profit.
I tend to view things from a S.A. perspective as this is where I live.
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