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Home => Documents => Uruguay is beginning to supply beef to RussiaUruguay is beginning to supply beef to Russia
Following the suspension of imports from Brazil and Argentina, the Russian market for beef is looking forward to alternative suppliers. The truth is likely to fully cover the shortage of meat will not be able to Uruguay. The right to export boneless beef meat to Russia received 17 myasohladoboen Uruguay. This is stated in a joint statement issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries issued in Montevideo. The agreements were preceded by negotiations that led Uruguayan private entrepreneurs with the support of the Government with the sanitary authorities of Russia. In a joint paper stressed «the importance of the agreement for the expansion of exports of Uruguayan meat, given the scale of the Russian market». For more details on the agreement official sources from both sides did not provide. While you can only assume, as it may affect Uruguayan products to the Russian market for beef. However, in contrast to the market of pork and poultry meat beef market is a permanent deficit. According to the Institute of Agricultural Marketing (IAM) in the first half of 2006, the production of beef has fallen by nearly 9%, while imports of this type of meat has increased by only 0.8%. At the end of the year is expected to decline in imports of beef to 9-11% compared with 2005. strongly decreased and the consumption of beef per capita: compared with the same period of 2005 to the beginning of 2006 it dropped by 10%. The shortage of beef in the country has arisen because of the «closure» Argentina. The country has announced the suspension to March 14, exports of beef abroad for a period of six months, and in 2005 delivered to Russia total 183.5 thousand tons of beef. Earlier Rosselkhoznadzor has introduced a ban on the import of meat from Brazil (with the exception of a few states), which is one of the leaders in exports of beef: last year it shipped us 295 thousand tons. As a result, since the beginning of the year the importers have been forced to cut 10 times the monthly volume of import of beef to Russia. Such circumstances inevitably lead to higher prices for this type of meat. Since the beginning of 2006, half the price of beef producers, on average, increased by 14,9%: Russian production - an average of 10.5%, imports - by 6%. The increasing price of raw materials has led to an increase in retail prices of beef: the beginning of the year the prices for various products of beef has increased from 10% to 40%. Following the closure of the two largest importers of beef in Russia, market participants have expressed the idea that somehow replace the leaders can only Uruguay and Paraguay. However, exports from these countries were not always comparable to the Brazilian and Argentinian. Paraguay, for example, last year was confined to sending in Russia, only 51 tons of beef. In Russia there are such small-scale importers, such as Australia, which over the past eight months has to CIS 9 tons (in 2005 - 292 tons). market participants is difficult to answer the question whether the Uruguayan beef to cover the current deficit, as yet unknown whether the volume of imports in question. «But neither in 2005 nor in the first half of 2006, Uruguay in the first top ten most important importer of beef has not got - notes analyst IAMa Eugene Slobodenyuk. - most likely, completely cover the existing deficit of beef shipments from Brazil, Uruguay will not be able, as in the first half of 2005, the share of imports of beef from Brazil amounted to 42,6% of total imports, while in 2006-m & ndash ; total 18,8% ». However, «in a possible future ban the importation of beef from Brazil and Argentina, imports from Uruguay will help to temporarily reduce tensions», added the expert. «Certainly, Uruguay can not deliver the volume of products such as Brazil could be, if it would be fully open - adds Director of Sales, Meatland in Moscow. - Nevertheless, this positive development for the market, because first of all Uruguayan meat will be designed specifically for retailers. In any case, it is better than nothing ». Unknown, and how to affect the import of Uruguayan beef in the future of price growth in the meat market in Russia. While experts say only that the Uruguayan meat is cheaper, although its quality is not worse than the Argentine or Brazilian. «Just the meat of this country are not so« raskrucheno »in the international market - explained Deputy Director General Meatland in Moscow. - The Brazilian meat are used, and it is believed that it was better, respectively, and more ». |
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