UK pork exports to the Philippines up on record year

The increase in imports is due in part to a 4% decrease in production.

So far this year, the Philippines has imported 545,214 tonnes of pork and pork products.

After seven successive quarters of negative margins, the English pig breeding herd has been reduced greatly.

The new control will strengthen the requirements for bringing pork and pork products into Great Britain from the European Union and EFTA states.

The veterinary authorities have denied the presence of foot-and-mouth and swine vesicular disease.

This measure is to address the inflationary impact of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

Spain, Canada, and Brazil were the leading pork suppliers in the first four months of the year.

Chile represents a new export destination for UK pork.

Meat and meat products from the EU must be imported at border control posts with appropriate certification starting July 1 of this year.