Little increase
After German pork exports have declined steadily in recent years, this development appears to have stopped for now. At least that's what the latest data on foreign trade from the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) suggest. Accordingly, from January to April 2024, a total of approximately 708,000 were exported from Germany. tons of pork together with by-products, which is a slight increase of about 5,000 tons, or about 0.7%. compared to the same period last year. Although deliveries to EU countries decreased, this was more than offset by an increase in exports to third countries.
Exports to the EU are falling
Most of the exported pork went to EU countries: 582 thousand. tons, it accounted for 82.2 percent. total exports. However, compared to the same period last year, exports to EU countries were 2.2 percent lower. smaller. The main reason was lower deliveries to the two most important recipient countries, Italy (-9% to approximately 100,000 tonnes) and the Netherlands (-10% to approximately 98,000 tonnes).
Exports to third countries increased by 16.5%.
However, the key to the growth of total German exports was greater exports to third countries. Compared to the first four months of the previous year, Germany delivered about 18,000 to non-EU countries. tons, i.e. by 16.5%. more pork or by-products, amounting to approximately 126 thousand tone. The largest quantities went to Great Britain (approx. 40 thousand tonnes), Vietnam (approx. 20 thousand tonnes) and South Korea (approx. 18 thousand tonnes). After a long period of closure of the South Korean market for German pork due to the ASF outbreak in Germany, deliveries were able to resume at the end of last year following the conclusion of a regionalization agreement. This agreement means many German slaughterhouses can continue to supply South Korea even after the recent ASF cases – but in June two German companies lost their export licenses again.
