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Japan’s total 2013 domestic slaughter and national pork output are projected down by less than one percent to 16.4 million head.

China has recently been importing over 0.4 million tonnes of pork per year, in a world market with trade of less than 7 million tonnes per year.

The grain-intensive pig and poultry sectors recorded particularly strong gains, increasing by 6 percent and 2 percent respectively.

Rabobank predicts a further 2 percent decline in pork production in 2014.

Pig meat production, on top of higher feed costs, would also be affected by the new animal welfare rules mandatory from January 2013, and would decline by -3.2% in 2013.

The import of live pigs from Italy in the first half of 2012 was characterized by an overall decrease of 13.3% compared to 2011.

Frozen pork supplies were up 6 percent from the previous month and up 31 percent from last year.

Pork exports to third countries increased by 2.6% over the same period last year, reaching 1,520,802 tons.

Leading the field is once again the pork and beef slaughterer Tönnies from Rheda-Wiedenbrück.

China's pork production in 2013 is forecast to rise about two percent to 52.65 MMT.

As fixing a MRL is considered as setting a threshold under which the use the product is considered as safe, the new standard fixed by the Codex can be considered de facto as an authorisation of using ractopamine below the fixed MRL in food producing animals.

Mexican pork production forecast is 1.25 MMT CWE, approximately 2.5 percent higher than the 2012 Post estimate.

In August, the increase in Brazilian exports of beef and pork roll was 14.9% and 9.3% respectively, compared with the same month last year. It is noteworthy that 97% of the increase was due to exports of these products to Russia.

In Q2 2012 the total meat production amounted to 115 113 tonnes (-6.8%), of which 16 379 tonnes (-9.1%) were beef and veal, 59 849 tonnes (-11.1%) were pigmeat.

After a pork production slowdown in 2011, production in 2012 is expected to stabilize at 2011 levels.

This decision is of great importance as Jalisco, along with Sonora, are the main producers of pork in the country, with about 45 percent of national production.