Tag: beef export

• Tuesday, May 4th 2021 - 08:00 UTC

  Paraguay beef exports on the rise, mainly to Chile

  

  Paraguay's beef exports totalled over 111,000 tons in January, February, March and April of 2021 to set a new record for the sector, the National Service for Animal Quality and Health (Senacsa) announced Monday.

• Friday, January 22nd 2021 - 09:08 UTC

  Brazilian meatpacker announces China has lifted bans on two processing plants

  

  Brazilian meatpacker JBS SA announced that China has lifted bans on two meat plants imposed in 2020 over coronavirus concerns.

• Monday, December 3rd 2018 - 13:43 UTC

  Japan's doors open again to Uruguayan beef after Shinzo Abe's Montevideo stop

  

  Uruguay's President Tabaré Vázquez met Sunday with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Montevideo. During the encounter, both leaders signed an agreement which opened Japan's market to beef exports from the South American country after 20 years.

• Thursday, January 18th 2018 - 09:11 UTC

  All cuts of Argentine beef and lamb have full access to the Chinese market

  

  Argentina and China signed a “historic” agreement that opens the huge Asian market to beef and lamb with bone from the South American country, according to Senasa the Argentine agriculture and livestock sanitary office. The deal concludes fifteen years of negotiations and means access to the world's largest importer of beef.

• Wednesday, May 17th 2017 - 21:15 UTC

  Something smells rotten in Brazilian food companies: probes into bribed inspections

  

  Brazilian police on Tuesday opened two separate investigations into whether certain food companies improperly received favorable treatment from the Agriculture Ministry, the latest probe ensnaring the powerful farming sector. The probes into whether inspection procedures were relaxed for meatpacking, dairy and other food companies come two months after industry leaders JBS SA and BRF SA were rocked by allegations of bribing food inspectors.

• Friday, April 7th 2017 - 12:46 UTC

  Brazil's trade surplus in March soared 61.2% to US$ 7.14bn

  

  Brazilian exports outweighed imports by more than US$7 billion in March despite fears that the economy could be hard hit by the country's on-going meat scandal. The country recorded a US$7.14 billion trade surplus last month, the highest level on record for the country and a whopping 61.2% increase on the previous year.

• Friday, July 10th 2015 - 07:08 UTC

  China becomes main importer of Uruguayan and Argentine frozen beef

  

  China has become the largest importer of frozen Argentine beef, according to the latest data released by the Industry and Trade of Meat and Meat Produce Association (CICCRA). However these figures are far from neighboring Uruguay which in four months shipped to China almost 50.000 tons, that has become the country's leading market.

• Saturday, May 2nd 2015 - 07:34 UTC

  Uruguay's meat exports in four months total 550m with beef the main item, 454m

  

  Uruguay exported meat, offal, meat products and by-products worth 550 million dollars in the year up to 18 April, 8% more than the same period of 2014. Beef exports totaled 454 million in the first months of the year, with the main buyers including China, member countries of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the European Union, Israel and MERCOSUR countries.

• Tuesday, January 14th 2014 - 07:50 UTC

  China becomes the leading market for Uruguayan meat exports

  

  Uruguay's meat exports slid 6.5% in volume during 2013 compared to the previous year, but the big news is that China has become the main client for beef, followed by Nafta countries, (US, Canada and Mexico), according to the latest release from the country's National Meat Institute, INAC.

• Monday, June 10th 2013 - 14:02 UTC

  Paraguay soy exports reach 1.55bn dollars in first five months of 2013

  

  Soybeans, electricity and beef figure as the main export items of landlocked Paraguay, during the first five months of the year. According to a release from the Ministry of Industry and Trade, exports at the end of May reached 4,12bn dollars compared to 2.96bn a year ago, which represents a 57.3% increase.