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Officially, last week the first shipment of pork left from Jalisco to Japan: a total amount of 20 tons of pig meat.

The Spanish exports of cured hams and shoulders ended year 2012 with an increase by 8.7% with respect to year 2011.

EU inspectors were in Sardinia for the verification of the African Swine Fever monitoring plan.

Australia has been a target market for the Irish pigmeat industry for many years and Minister Coveney said that he was delighted that the industry now had an opportunity to export to this important market.

Hog producers reported 12.7 million hogs, down 0.5% from January 1, 2012.

Pork exports for the year as a whole were up seven per cent, with most of the growth in the second half of the year, after the Chinese market was opened.

Hams will be liberalised after 5 years. Exports of wines & spirits, pork products and olive oil will also benefit from preferential access.

The total pig meat exports in 2012 were 3,130,291 tons, which means a drop by 1.9% with respect to year 2011.

During last year (2012), the pig meat exports reached a record value of US$ 538 million.

In December 2012, swine inventories totaled to 11.1 million head, a 15 percent drop in comparison to the same period of previous year.

Pork exports set both volume and value records last year, reaching 2.26 million mt – up a fraction from the record set in 2011 – valued at $6.3 billion, a 3.5 percent increase over the prior year’s record.

Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection announced that effective March 1, swine entering Wisconsin must be accompanied by an import permit.

The year 2012 was characterised by a decline in beef and pigmeat production (−8.9% and −8.8%, respectively).

Russia is the destination of approximately a 7% of the Spanish pig meat exports.

During the first nine months of year 2012, the Dutch exports of fresh and frozen pig meat have fallen by 16.5%.

Pork exports in the first 10 months of 2012 were 5% higher on the year at 127,100 tonnes.