Following the upward trend of recent years, last year was once again a good year for European Union pork exports. There was an 18.8% increase over 2019, with a total of 5,428,747 t exported (not yet considering the United Kingdom as a destination for EU exports).

Evolution of European exports of pork products to their principal destinations (2016-2020).

China, which now accounts for 61.1% of total EU exports (+10% over 2019), increased its imports of European pork by 45.2% over the previous year, reaching 3,346,588 t, followed by Japan (359,943 t), Hong Kong (283,633 t), South Korea (195,066 t) and the Philippines 152,855 t).

Top destinations for European pork in 2020
February 23, 2021/ 333 Staff with data from DG Agri.