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Irish food and drink exports to China are set to grow by almost 20% this year to more than €150 million.

A £2 million "Make the Promise" advertising campaign for Red Tractor pork is launched. It will run for 18 months.

During the first half of this year, pork imports in Russia have increased by 5%, compared with the same period last year.

During the first semester of this year the number of pigs slaughtered in Spain has increased by 1.84% compared to the same period last year.

In May of 2011, the production of pork in France decreased by 1%. In June of 2011 the downward trend in slaughters continued, with a decrease of 1.8%.

U.S. pork exports show good prospects for growth in Hong Kong’s domestic market, greatly benefiting from the Hong Kong dollar’s peg to the U.S. dollar.

As of July 18th, marking with the letter "F" will identify pig carcasses as born, raised, and slaughtered in France.

Throughout July, Brazilian pork exports reached 36.104 tons, which signifies a 17,52% decrease in volume and a 13,28% decrease in value. The main cause of this decrease was the Russian embargo on pork meat decreed on June 2nd, which came into effect on June15th.

Denmark's exports of pork and pigs between January and April 2011 reached 698,000 metric tons.

China imported 126,269 tons of fresh and frozen pork in the first half this year, an increase of 43.39% compared with the same time last year.

Throughout the first semester of this year, exports have reached 1.484.169 tons, which represents an 18,8% increase with respect to the same period of the previous year.

The Beijing Animal Health Inspection Institute prevented more than 15,000 swill-fed pigs from entering the market between June and August.

In the first half of 2011, about 4 million tonnes of meat were produced commercially in Germany. That was an increase in production of 1.1% (+42,700 tonnes) on the same period a year earlier.

If the trend established in the first six months of the year holds up, U.S. beef and pork exports are likely to set several new records in 2011 and each could eclipse the $5 billion mark for the first time ever.

The Department of Internal Trade (DIT) under the Ministry of Commerce has stopped announcing recommended pork prices after finding price fluctuations are volatile and supplies are still in shortage.