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China's meat imports surged by more than 1 million tonnes

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The number of plants approved to export to China is also higher than in 2018.

Posted on Dec 03 ,11:26

China's meat imports surged by more than 1 million tonnes

Approval procedures for new meat exporting plants are moving much faster in 2019 than prior years in gaining access to mainland China, especially beef and pork plants, according to Beef to China observation. Statistics said that the number of beef plants accesses to China during the eleven months of this year has reached nearly 90, and newly approved pork plants have reached 70. That can only lead to one conclusion: there is a strong demand for meat in China and is probably going to stay that way in the years to come.
From January to October 2019, a total of about 4.6 million tons of meat were imported by mainland China, surging about 1.25 million tons compared with the same period in 2018. Among them, beef, pork, and chicken were the main force to push a year-on-year increase of above million tons, and sheep meat also had a small growth in imports.

In terms of import countries of origin, Brazil, Spain, and Australia are the top three sources for mainland China this year, and their meat export volume to mainland China has maintained an increase, with year-on-year growth of 20%, 42%, and 54%, respectively. For 2020, poultry is expected to play a significant role in China's animal protein market as the US has gained access to this market for 172 poultry producers and pork prices are threatening to skyrocket in December 2019 and January 2020. As an example, the difference in price between pork and beef is at only 0.6%, showing how big is the deficit of pork in the Chinese market. That is expected to push consumers to other types of meats, such as beef, sheepmeat and poultry, with the last one still enjoying an affordable price for most of the Chinese people.

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