USA: egg exports increase in volume and value

Mexico, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Iraq, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Dominican Republic, Georgia, Haiti, Qatar, Nicaragua, Peru, El Salvador, Congo (Kinshasa), Honduras and Mozambique recorded huge year-on-year increases in US broiler imports. Broiler exports for the first ten months of 2023 were 3,038,888 metric tons, down 3.9 percent from the same period last year, and export value was $3.968 billion, down 10.3 percent. Of the total shipments, 55.3 percent or 1,679,946 tons were sent to the six largest markets, including Mexico, China, Taiwan, Cuba, the Philippines and Canada. Shipments to Mexico in January-October 2023 totaled 598,445 tons, up 10.7 percent from the same period a year earlier. During the same period, Brazil's chicken exports to Mexico reached 154,641 metric tons, up 21.0 percent from last year, while Chile's chicken exports to Mexico reached 22,644 metric tons, down 6.5 percent. . Exports to China fell 29.9 percent to 372,326 tons (of which 68.2 percent, or 253,833 metric ...