Mercosur steer: Brazil and Uruguay lead the declines of the week

The values of export-type steers in the region's markets and their behavior since last week are reported. Brazil: the fat steer is paid USD3.87, eight cents less than the previous week. The drop in the internal price was enhanced by a devaluation of the real. Exports continued at a high pace in the third week of December, maintaining the projection to tie with the 315-320 thousand tons of the last three months, that is, a record level. Uruguay: the export-type steer has a price of USD5.07, five cents less, which was a new adjustment of values, according to consignees. It is the third week of declines, totaling 13 cents and is 40 cents below the recent high of the first half of October. The slaughter of the previous week was 45 thousand heads, 10% more than the previous week and 7% less than the average of the ten previous ones. Exports in the third week rose somewhat, although they still point to less than 30 thousand tons in the month, a 26% year-on-year drop, although they will ...