Japan pays more for Brazilian pork meat in 2025

The Conjunctural Bulletin released this Thursday (5) by the Rural Economy Department of the State Secretariat for Agriculture and Supply, based on data from Agrostat/Mapa, indicates that in 2025, Japan was the country that best compensated Brazilian "in natura" pork among the twenty main trading partners of Brazil in terms of imported volume. According to the survey, the average value paid by the Japanese market reached US$ 3.42 per kilo, while the overall average sales price of the product during the period was US$ 2.55 per kilo. The bulletin reports that other markets registered remuneration above the average during the period, such as the United States, United Arab Emirates, Canada, Singapore, Argentina, Peru, Uruguay, Georgia, and Hong Kong. The Deral highlighted that "of the ten countries that best compensated the product, it is observed that Paraná has not yet exported significant volumes to Japan, the United States, and Canada," destinations that occupied, respectively, the ...