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The value of EU agri-food exports in January 2019 increased for the 4th year in a row to reach a new record level of €11.2 billion.

While the Withdrawal Agreement negotiated between the EU and the UK remains the best possible outcome, the EU is prepared for a possible “no-deal” scenario in the area of agriculture.

Based on increasing consumer demand, stable feed prices and the modernization efforts of the Mexican industry, USDA forecasts an increase in pork production in 2019.

The Government has launched a new ‘no deal’ notification system for businesses that import live animals from outside the EU.

The 2017 full-year import figure already broke the 2 million metric ton barrier for the first time since records began in 1988, in 2018 this figure was exceeded.

Increase in production, decrease in exports and worsening of the trade deficit.

As 2019 gets underway, we see another year full of potential in global pork, with growth in production and demand in many parts of the world. Yet this is overshadowed by the uncertainty created by complex disease and trade issues, as can be read in the just-released RaboResearch report ‘Pork Quarterly Q1 2019: Another Uncertain Year – With More Complex Disease and Trade Issues’.

China's pork supply will determine trading trends for meat and oilseeds.

It is expected that from 2019 to 2023, the import volume of pork and pig offal in China will continue to rise, and China’s pork market will receive attention from the pig farmers and pork traders all over the world.

The Australian pig and pig meat industry is the smallest of the livestock industries and the only one competing with imported products.

The President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, and President Xi Jinping of China, have just concluded what both have said was a “highly successful meeting” between themselves and their most senior representatives in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

On November 30, 2018, Canada, the United States and Mexico signed the new Canada-United States-Mexico Agreement (CUSMA), on the margins of the G20 leaders’ summit in Buenos Aires.