Beef exports grew almost 20% in volume in January and generated 11% more foreign currency after the market liberalization carried out by the Government of Javier Milei.
Beef exports reached a volume close to 61.2 thousand tons of refrigerated and frozen beef product weight for a value of around US$ 235.3 million.
Compared to the month of December, shipped volumes show a slight drop of 0.4%;
while the value obtained shows a moderate advance, of 3.6%.
But compared to the same month in 2023,
exported volumes grew by 19.2% while the value obtained was 11.9% higher.
China was the main export destination in the first month of the year
, representing almost 80% of the total.
11.9 thousand tons of bone-in beef and bovine bones, worth US$19.3 million, and 36.6 thousand tons of boneless beef, worth US$123.6 million, were shipped to the Asian giant.
Starting in January,
meatpackers can export the 7 popular cuts
that were prohibited for two years, a measure promoted by the government of Alberto Fernández that concluded last December 31.
In this context, the representatives of the Argentine Meat Exporters Consortium (ABC) met this Monday with the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo and the Secretary General of Coordination, Dr. Juan Pazo and thanked him
“Argentina has enormous potential to enter the international market as a supplier of high-quality beef, committed to environmental sustainability and food safety, fully complying with the requirements demanded by demanding clients from abroad,” said
Mario Ravettino
, President of the ABC Consortium.
Likewise, this Monday the Israeli Veterinary and Animal Health Service (Ivsah, for its acronym in English), sent to the National Agri-Food Health and Quality Service (Senasa) its agreement to advance the export of kosher bone-in beef and sheep. from Argentina.
Through a note signed by the veterinary director of Imports and Exports of the Isvath, Shlomo Garazi, it was indicated that Israel
"has considered Argentina as an eligible country to export bone-in meat from the entire national territory
," and expressed its agreement in expand the scope of the current International Veterinary Certificate (CVI) for the shipment of boneless meats of the same species and offal to add kosher bone-in beef.
Recalculating
The National Directorate of Animal Production of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries decided to correct the methodology for calculating sales abroad and consumption per person of beef.
According to the official statement, this methodological review of the calculation of beef exports, adjusting its composition for the period 2019-2023,
made it possible to find relevant numerical differences.
Exports in 2023 closed at 852,806 thousand tons of beef equivalent with bone against 963,690 tons that had been calculated before the methodological correction.
With the corrected series, beef exports grew by 6% and 17% compared to the record for 2022 and 2021 respectively, but showed a decrease of 4% compared to the volume of 2020.
Sales of bones resulting from deboning (bones with meat) grew significantly as of July 2019, registering a volume of 111 thousand tons of product weight in 2023.
In mid-March 2021, a specific tariff position was created, called “Other bones resulting from deboning”, which allows it to be differentiated.