The graph shows China’s pork import volumes more than doubling in 2016 before falling back slightly in 2017 due to higher expected domestic production. China has overtaken Japan as the largest importer, whilst of course it was already the largest producer. Other news from the report is that the USDA are also predicting a 3% […]
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The team in AgraKepak Shanghai met with Michael Creed, Irish minister for agriculture, Paul Kavanagh, the Irish ambassador to China, the Irish consulate and the head of Bord Bia Asia during the ministers’ trade mission to China in September 2016.
Two members of our Chinese pork sales team from our Shanghai office, Shane O’ Flynn and Tao Shen, visited Suzhou pork market last week. Suzhou is located 100km west of Shanghai and is one of the largest markets for frozen imported pork in China. As well as domestic pork there was product on show from […]
A definite cooling has taken place in the prices available from Asia over the last few weeks, particularly China. Chinese local pig price continues to decrease slowly. Meanwhile in Europe increasing pig prices in June and July appear to have stabilised and been fairly static for the last couple of weeks. There is still a […]
The latest data from Chinese Customs shows that China imported 115,000t of pork in March 2016. The latest data from Chinese Customs shows that China imported 115,000t of pork in March 2016. This is a phenomenal result, and twice the volume imported one year earlier in March 2015. Domestic pig price is high, but domestic […]
EU exports of all pig meat products were up by more than a quarter in the first three months of 2016. EU exports of all pig meat products were up by more than a quarter in the first three months of 2016, compared with a year earlier, with the main increase in demand has […]
SIAL Shanghai was held from the 05th-07th May. AgraKepak attended and we noticed a huge increase from the depressed attendance numbers of 2015. Pork was in particularly high demand this year which was no surprise given current market, while beef and lamb ware steady. We hope Irish beef will be granted direct access to this key market in 2016. […]
At this time of year with larger and larger fish being caught a lot of sellers are reporting an abundance of 3kg+ headed and gutted cod stocks. The increased difficulty in processing means there is a lot less demand for this size than the 1-2kg. In an effort to value-add some Russian producers are now […]
Global pig meat production is forecast to decrease by 1% on the year to 109.3 million tonnes in 2016, according to the U The world’s largest pig meat producer, China, forecasts a decrease of 3 per cent year on year. The reduction in output is thought to be due to poor producer profitability last year, […]
In a sign of commitment to our Asian customers, AgraKepak China opened its doors for business in Q4 2015. The first period was mainly spent on setting up our office structure but with the arrival of some new additions to staff we are delighted to announce that the office is now fully staffed & operational. […]