Brazil: Chicken meat in the mix of items exported in 2023, fresh product corresponded to 95% of the total volume

Considered the official standard adopted to identify products exported by the country – Common Mercosur Nomenclature (NCM) – Brazil has been selling twelve different chicken meat items internationally: √ Two of them concern cuts, identified as frozen or as fresh/chilled; √ Another four refer to the whole chicken: they identify not only whether the product is frozen or chilled, but also whether or not it contains bird giblets; √ The NCMs relating to industrialized products rise to five. Each of them, in essence, defines the different percentages of meat contained in the processed meat and, also, whether the product is cooked or uncooked; √ Finally, the twelfth NCM (not necessarily in that order in the SECEX/ME data) refers to salted chicken meat. Regarding fresh products (cuts and whole chicken), more than 99% of the volume exported in 2023 was represented by frozen products. In other words: the little that is exported of fresh and/or refrigerated products is destined for ...