Official promise: The export of pork to Uruguay is more like a utopia than a reality

Published 2024년 6월 13일

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Uruguay has opened its market to Argentine pork, but the export has not yet started due to administrative procedures and the need for approval of specific cuts. The opening of the market is more due to the floods in Brazil, which have caused a shortage in Uruguay, rather than Argentine diplomacy. The prices paid by Uruguayan importers are very low, and Argentine exporters believe that it is not viable to export to Uruguay as the local market pays better. If exports do happen, they will likely involve trimmings or pork fat, not the pulp.

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The news of the opening of the Uruguayan market is undoubtedly something positive, but it is more due to the misfortune of Brazil, due to the floods in the south of that country and Uruguay's need for supplies than to Argentine diplomacy. “We are going to export pork to Uruguay,” Secretary Fernando Vilella told this reporter on that occasion that day, assuming something that for now is not materializing. “They say that some business was done, but for now nothing has happened because there is all the administrative procedure involved,” said Juan Uccelli, consultant and former president of the Association of Pork Producers. Beyond the fact that there are some plants enabled, the cuts must be approved among other issues. This was confirmed by businessmen who hope that the bad situation in the sector will be reversed: “Nothing has been exported yet,” confirmed one of them, who raises, slaughters and sells pork. Uccelli explained: “The prices paid by importers from that country are ...

Source: Agromeat