Export of meat: more volume at a better price, and more placement outside of quotas.

Engineer Esteban Montes (Agricultural Plan) analyzed in his column on the program Diario Rural (CX4 Rural), the exports of beef from Uruguay in its different quotas, with destination the United States as well as the European Union. UNITED STATES. With the United States, the quota is 20,000 tons at a 10% tariff imposed by the government of Donald Trump, plus US$ 4.4 that was being paid per ton. That quota is fulfilled in the calendar year and currently, at the beginning of November, it has 84% fulfilled, which shows a behavior similar to 2024, Montes pointed out. On the values, he said that the ton is at US$ 11,400, which is about 30% more than in 2024. The general sales to the United States indicate that outside the quota, 81% of the volume goes, and within the remaining 19%. In recent years, exports outside the quota show an increase: in 2023, 22,000 tons, and in 2024, 60,000 tons. This year, 73,000 tons have gone. These sales pay a higher tariff, of 36.4%. EUROPEAN UNION. The ...