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Argentine exported 3,454 million dollars of meat in 2022

The accumulated data for the year 2022 reveals that foreign sales of refrigerated and frozen beef were close to 632 thousand tons of product weight, for a value of approximately 3,454 million dollars. In relation to the year 2021, the volumes exported are +10.9% higher, while the value obtained has been +24.0% higher.

The average export price of refrigerated and frozen beef was US$3,926 per ton in December 2022. This value is -6.3% lower than that obtained in last November and -29.6% lower than the average price of December 2021, which had been US$5,579 per ton.

In the last eight months, there has been a persistent downward trend in prices in the main destinations from May onwards and the average US$3,926 per ton obtained in the month of December is US$2,375 per ton below the maximum registered in the month of April.

China represented 80.3% of the volumes exported in December 2022 and 77.6% of the accumulated figure for the year. The average price of boneless meat sales to China in December 2022 was around US$3,676 per ton, marking a clear downward path from the maximum of US$5,900 obtained last May.

Source: EuroMeatNews