Brazilian chicken meat exports grow 5.8% by July

Brazilian chicken meat exports grew 5.8% from January to July 2019 in comparison with the same period last year, reported on Thursday (8) The association that represents the exporters of the sector (ABPA). In the year, they were sold abroad 2,430,000 tons. With this performance, the revenues of the sector accumulate a high of 10.8% in 2019, with revenues of US $4.07 billion. "The international market is heated, and prices are high. Again we recorded average values above US $ $1700 per tonne. For comparative purposes only, the average price of 2018 was US $1600 per tonne, "noted the executive director of ABPA, Ricardo Santin. Considering only the month of July, the shipments of chicken meat reached 387,600 tonnes. The balance is 16.4% lower than the 463,500 tonnes recorded in July 2018, when the record volume was motivated by the daming of sales on account of the truckers ' strike. Main destination of the exports of chicken meat, China, which goes through a crisis of African swine fever and seeks other proteins to balance the supply to consumers of the country, imported in July 52700 tonnes, volume 15% higher than shipped in the same Period of last year. Mexico, the largest importer in the Americas, was the destination of 14070 tons, up 3% over the last year. The foreign exchange balance of July 2019, with US $665.6 million, was 6.4% lower than that recorded in the same period of the previous year, with US $ US $710.9 million.