Spanish pork bursts into Hungarian shops: this product is salted on customers

Published 2022년 1월 31일

Tridge summary

On February 1, 2022, in Hungary, seven essential foods, including meats, milk, wheat, and cooking oil, implemented price caps. However, the introduction of imported pork by retailers like Prima, due to oversupply in Europe, has made price comparisons more difficult and raised concerns about the potential for other retailers to follow suit. The industry has successfully prevented a surge of imported meat in the past, but the arrival of Spanish pork and the possibility of further price increases threaten this achievement. The situation is further complicated by the African swine fever in Italy, which has disrupted expected market corrections, leading to falls in German prices and market splits in Hungary.

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On February 1, 2022, the 7 essential foods - chicken breast, a chicken thighs, pork legs, 2.8% UHT cow’s milk, wheat for fine flour and sunflower cooking oil - introduced price stop. And in the last days of January, what many feared happened: imported pork appeared in the meat counters - read the World Economy page. There are several Prima stores in the CBA chain could be encountered - due to the mandatory flag marking from domestic goods immediately separable with Spanish products. Prices comparison is already more difficult, it was not included in the same meat Hungarian and Spanish products on the same counter, in any case in the CBA pork shoulder offered for 899 forints per kilogram in one of the Auchan stores the special offer was 1199 forints, while the CBA offered Spanish for 1399 forints In contrast to the boneless pork loin, the Hungarian rib in Auchan in 1559 was HUF for the weekend. - said Tamás Éder, president of the Association of Hungarian Meat Industry. ...

Source: Agrarszektor