The latest data from the Single CMO Management Committee shows that, during the first half of the year, pork exports to third party countries increased by 2.6% over the same period last year, reaching 1,520,802 tons . The main destinations are still Russia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and the Ukraine, but for all we have detected a decrease in exports, except for China and the Ukraine, where 79% and 87% increases were detected, respectively, in relation to the same period last year.
Regarding imports these follow the trend of recent months and fell by 5.7% over the period between January and June 2011.
August 2012/ PVE/ Netherlands.
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