SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian exports of fresh beef reached 124,440 tonnes in March, down 26.4% from the same month last year, amid a suspension of protein shipments to China which was only raised at the end of last month, data from the federal government showed this Monday.
With an annual retraction of 18.5% in the average price per ton exported, revenue from foreign sales of the protein dropped from almost US$1 billion in March 2022 to US$598.79 million last month, according to the Foreign Trade Secretariat. (Secex).
By a protocol between the two countries, Brazil automatically suspended beef exports to the Chinese market as of February 23, due to the detection of an atypical case of the disease Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), known as “mad cow disease”. “, no stop.
The resumption of purchases in the Chinese market occurred almost 30 days after the start of the self-embargo, by decision of the government of the Asian country during a mission by the Brazilian Minister of Agriculture, Carlos Fávaro, to China.
Exporters from Brazil even continued shipping batches to the Chinese at the beginning of March, according to preliminary data from Secex and analysts heard by Reuters, but even so the total volume of external sales of the protein was affected in the accumulated result for the month.
Also according to Secex, soybean exports totaled 13.27 million tons last month, surpassing the volume of 12.2 million sent abroad in March 2022, with the progress of the harvest of a record harvest in the 2022 harvest. /23.
In corn, there was a surge to 1.33 million tons for international sales, against only 14.28 thousand tons a year earlier, amid heated external demand for the cereal and greater supply.
(Reporting by Nayara Figueiredo)
#Beef #exports #Brazil #fall #March #soybean #shipments #increase #ISTOÉ #DINHEIRO