Present status: A biblical disaster had to occur for Argentina to wake up from its nap and request the entry of car

Published 2024년 5월 16일

Tridge summary

Due to a supply disaster in Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil's pork exports to Uruguay have been cut off, leaving the country facing a pork shortage. In response, Argentina has approved the export of chilled and boneless pork to Uruguay, a first for the two countries. The shipment is valued at approximately US$2,500/ton and will allow Argentina to meet Uruguay's high pork demand. Initially, three refrigerators will be authorized for export, with other meat processing plants able to join if they meet Uruguay's requirements. Argentine pork is valued in Uruguay due to its genetic quality and lack of use of ractopamine, a substance used as an anabolic in other countries.
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Original content

A week ago Bichos de Campo warned that an unusual event was taking place in Mercosur: due to the disaster that occurred in Rio Grande do Sul, the supply of Brazilian pork destined for Uruguay and that country – which is not self-sufficient in the product – was cut off. – is one step away from running out of stocks of that protein. The irony is that, in the more than thirty years of Mercosur's existence, no Argentine government had thought of requesting health authorization to be able to export pork to Uruguay and, despite the greater proximity, that possibility was prohibited. But now, not by its own impulse but by the urgent circumstances present in the south of Brazil, finally – in an express procedure – the possibility of Argentina marketing pork in the Uruguayan market has materialized. “Argentina will export chilled and boneless pork (pulp) for the first time to Uruguay, a market that is currently affected by the floods that occurred in southern Brazil. This shipment will ...

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