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World Beef Report 1636

  • China maintains downward pressure, but some deals reflect Sial-level pricing
  • Uruguay’s monthly beef exports to the EU hit 16-year high
  • Legal dispute adds more “noise” to US tariff policy
  • Lequio acquisition to create Argentina’s largest slaughter group
  • Paraguay’s average export value reaches highest level in over a decade

editor: Rafael Tardáguila

6/4/2025

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World Beef Report 1635

  • China holds prices steady after Sial amid cautious demand
  • Fresh drop for chilled and frozen beef in Europe
  • US market remains sluggish amid “uncertainty”
  • Brazil's export value hits highest level in over two years
  • EU rates Uruguay as “low risk” for deforestation

editor: Rafael Tardáguila

5/28/2025

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World Beef Report 1634

  • Moderate volume sales at firm prices during Sial Shanghai
  • Tariff uncertainty limits Brazil’s sales to the United States
  • Algeria’s ports are full of beef
  • “There are rumors that China could move to a quota system”
  • Uruguay is “interested” in Allana entering the country, said INAC president

editor: Rafael Tardáguila

5/21/2025

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World Beef Report 1633

  • SIAL and the US hit the pause button on China
  • Chilled prices in Europe strengthen again
  • Brazilian exports up by more than 90,000 tons in the four month period
  • Brazil shipped 55,000 tons of beef to North America in April
  • Beef prices are trending higher in the three main import markets
  • The aim is to be “more ambitious”
  • Global beef exports to China remain below 200,000 tons per month

editor: Rafael Tardáguila

5/14/2025

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World Beef Report 1632

  • Trade war fallout ‘starts to bite’ in dealings with China
  • Kosher operations ramp up in the region
  • Uruguay: Beef export value at 32 month high in April
  • Uruguayan President Orsi meets India’s Allana Group
  • 84 % of Argentina Hilton quota shipped by April, completion now unlikely
  • Paraguay beef exports up 21% year on year despite drop in top market
  • Australian April beef exports surge to near-record 127,000t

editor: Rafael Tardáguila

5/7/2025

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World Beef Report 1631

  • Stable prices in China, but pressure to pay less persists
  • Mixed signals in the US
  • Brazil: Beef average export value hits highest level in more than two years
  • Brazilian processors seek more buyers for their beef in inland China
  • Heifers are the star of the Uruguayan domestic market
  • European bullock prices skyrocket 50% in the year so far
  • China’s frozen beef imports from Mercosur fall by more than 90,000 t

editor: Rafael Tardáguila

4/30/2025

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World Beef Report 1630

  • China seeks to cool rising prices
  • Negotiations with Israel move forward
  • Mercosur steer hits highest level since mid 2022
  • Brazil: Expectations of higher exports despite lower production
  • Argentine processors weigh request to scrap export taxes amid the new exchange rate
  • Argentina: March exports fell 36 % year on year
  • China should increase imports by 11% over the remainder of the year

editor: Rafael Tardáguila

4/23/2025

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World Beef Report 1629

  • China remains firm, though signs of a slowdown in the upward trend appear
  • U.S. market begins to take shape again
  • Main beef producing regions will reduce output
  • Cattle slaughter reached a record high in Brazil in the first quarter
  • Argentina eased currency controls and exporters improved the exchange rate by nearly 8% on the first day
  • China rejected approval of new Brazilian slaughter plants
  • Wholesale prices in China remain unresponsive

editor: Rafael Tardáguila

4/16/2025

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World Beef Report 1628

  • Despite the trade war, prices remain firm in China
  • Chaos in trade with the US
  • The new global balances hit the Mercosur steer price
  • For the first time, March beef exports from Brazil exceeded 200,000 metric tons
  • Brazilian beef exports to the United States were a record in March
  • “It’s not possible to speculate on China's decision”
  • Beef exports to China in QI fall by about 80 thousand tons

editor: Rafael Tardáguila

4/9/2025

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World Beef Report 1627

  • China between sustained price increases and pressure to push them down
  • Three-year high for prices within the Hilton quota
  • US eagerly awaiting Trump’s tariff announcements
  • Minimum in more than 9 years in Uruguayan boneless frozen exports to China
  • Shipments of US beef to China plummet
  • In China, the path is clearing for quotas or tariff hikes on beef imports, according to operator
  • Beef consumption shows steady growth in China

editor: Rafael Tardáguila

4/2/2025

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World Beef Report 1626

  • China remains firm, though some importers resist additional price increases
  • Europe remains strong and is now an option even for forequarter cuts
  • US on hold, awaiting D-Day on April 2
  • Brazilian government optimism over the approval of “dozens” of beef plants by China
  • Minerva expects the new deal with Marfrig in Uruguay to be approved by July at the latest
  • Argentine February exports rebound compared to January, but show a 27% year-on-year drop
  • Australia and the United States gain prominence in China’s beef import market

editor: Rafael Tardáguila

3/26/2025

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World Beef Report 1625

  • China is out looking for beef and prices are moving
  • The US beef import market is at a standstill due to uncertainty caused by Trump
  • Beef production in Brazil will remain robust in 2025
  • Record domestic consumption and beef exports in Brazil during 2024
  • Highest level in nearly two years for Uruguayan meatpacking industry debt
  • Imported beef stocks in China increased for the second consecutive month in February
  • China Customs let the approval of more than 350 US beef exporting plants expire

editor: Rafael Tardáguila

3/19/2025

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World Beef Report 1624

  • China consolidates the price recovery
  • Brazilian beef export volume was a record for February
  • Falling exports of beef and byproducts from Brazil to China and Hong Kong
  • Around 100,000 cattle remain to be slaughtered in Uruguay for the Hilton quota
  • February cattle slaughter in Argentina was the lowest in 3 years
  • Nearly 400 US beef plants could be left out of China; rumors of more delistings from South America
  • Chinese beef imports projected to grow 2% in 2025

editor: Rafael Tardáguila

3/12/2025

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World Beef Report 1623

  • The trade war begins to impact the beef trade
  • Exporters to the US used 25% of quotas in the first two months of the year
  • Record beef exports are forecasted for Brazil in 2025, USDA said
  • Government of Brazil considered restricting exports to curb the rise in domestic prices
  • Maximums in 18 years in Uruguayan frozen beef exports to the US
  • Argentina removed the ban on exporting live cattle
  • China suspends beef imports from some plants in top suppliers

editor: Rafael Tardáguila

3/5/2025

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World Beef Report 1622

  • Improved Chinese demand translates into higher prices, but the struggle continues
  • Europe seeks a ceiling for the Hilton market
  • Brazil on track to have the world’s largest traceability system
  • Uruguayan cattle herd growth will be modest in 2024/25
  • Eleven Uruguayan meatpacking plants are inactive at the start of 2025
  • Three-year low for Argentine beef exports in January
  • Brazil consolidates as the main beef supplier to the Chilean market

editor: Rafael Tardáguila

2/26/2025

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World Beef Report 1621

  • With China present, Gulfood dominates the center of business
  • European beef import market remains overheated
  • Brazil average beef export value fell to its lowest level in eight weeks
  • Allana Group denies link with Salic
  • A fire destroyed Gorina’s plant, one of the largest Argentine beef exporters
  • Imported beef stock in China did not maintain its trend in January
  • Cattle numbers on feed in Australia hit new record high at 1.45m head

editor: Rafael Tardáguila

2/19/2025

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World Beef Report 1620

  • Signs of improvement noted in China’s beef import market
  • Chilled cuts to the EU reach highest levels since October
  • Brazil export volume to China in January was the lowest in 10 months
  • Minerva persists in purchasing three Marfrig plants in Uruguay and would sell one of them to the Indian Allana Group
  • Analyst forecasts a 5–7% drop in Argentine cattle slaughter and challenges for exporting meatpackers
  • Bolivia suspended beef exports and warns of million-dollar losses
  • Less than 200,000 tons of beef were shipped to China in January
  • SPECIAL REPORT - The future of livestock lies in intensification

editor: Rafael Tardáguila

2/12/2025

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World Beef Report 1619

  • Slow return from China after the New Year
  • The Hilton market gains strength
  • Uruguayan beef exports to China at a five-year low
  • Shortage of steers in Argentina will continue at least until March, industry says
  • Intense slaughter pace in January in Paraguay
  • U.S. producers call for measures to reduce beef imports
  • Exports of Australian beef match 2014/15 record

editor: Rafael Tardáguila

2/5/2025

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World Beef Report 1618

  • China dimmed by the Lunar New Year
  • Conab projects a slight contraction in Brazilian beef production for 2025
  • Renewed momentum in Uruguay sheep meat exports to Israel
  • The Argentine government allocated the US beef quota
  • Expectations for the opening of kosher business from Paraguay with the US
  • Sky-high cattle prices in Turkey
  • Three out of every four kilos imported by China in 2024 came from Mercosur

editor: Rafael Tardáguila

1/29/2025

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