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Pigmeat production is expected to increase slightly in 2020. It will be supported by favourable prices, return of consumer demand and solid export prospects.

Currently, Mexico exports frozen pork to China. Expanding to fresh chilled meat would be a major advancement.

Foodservice closures and logistical challenges have not thwarted pigmeat demand. Heavy carcass weights increased production.

During the first quarter of 2020, the EU27 agri-food trade was up 4.7% from Q1 of 2019, despite the COVID-19 pandemic developing.

In the period January - April 2020, pork exports to China more than doubled.

For the first time China accounted for more than half of UK fresh and frozen pork exports in April. Overall export was up, and import prices remained higher than last year.

During the first three months of 2020, the volume of French pork exports to the EU and third countries increased.

U.S. pork processing capacity utilization still reduced following COVID-19-related disruptions, sow and boar slaughter up from last year, April exports strong.

Hong Kong joins the Ivory Coast in receiving its first shipment of pork from Colombia.

World total meat production is forecast to fall by 1.7 percent in 2020. World pig meat output is forecast to record a sharp contraction.

EU pork exports to China were exceptionally high in February. Export and import numbers for wheat, grains, and oil seeds.

After the Angolan market opened last year, the Ivory Coast will now be the second African market to open its borders to Colombian pork.

In 2019, the trade surplus for livestock products was EUR 600 million, an increase of EUR 103 million, after several years of decline.

In 2019, Mexico exported more than 221,000 tonnes of certified meat and bee products to 65 countries.