Colombia exported 3,000 tons of dairy until October 2020

Despite the fact that this year the record with the highest imports in history was already broken, sales of dairy products grew compared to 2019, although they fell compared to 2017 and 2018, when the results were more favorable. Undoubtedly, the trade balance for products such as powdered milk and other derivatives is in deficit by a wide margin: while more than 65,000 tonnes have been imported with the September cut-off, barely 3000 have been exported with the October cut-off. Indeed, the 495 t exported in the tenth month of the year culminated in this round figure of 3,000, which is equivalent to 11,351,000 dollars (FOB value) according to DANE statistics. (Read: Colombia imported 29 times more dairy than it exported in the first half of 2020) These data present a dilemma when compared with the last 4 years, since in the pandemic they grew compared to 2019 (they are already higher than those of all last year), but presented a notable decrease with the sales reached in 2017 and ...