2024-01-02 03:44:36
In what represents a clear end of the era, the National Agri-Food Health and Quality Service (SENASA) enabled as of this Monday, first day of 2024, the procedures to allow the export of all cuts of beefwhether fresh, chilled or frozen.
The validity of the regulations adopted by the government of Alberto Fernández, through the Decree 911/21which prohibited the export of “whole cattle; half cattle; front quarter with bone; hind quarter with bone; incomplete half cattle with bone; and incomplete front quarters with bone.”
In addition, the former president’s measure prohibited the offices of the so-called “parrilleros” or “popular cuts”, such as the roast with or without bone, skirt, matambre, roast tapa, buttock, shoulder and vacuum. The differentiation for the export of cows of categories D and E and bulls, better known as “Chinese Cow”, animals that were never consumed in the domestic market and that are part of the gastronomic taste of the Asian consumer, will also cease to have effect.
“Due to the expiration of the rule, Senasa updated the procedures to the new situation and adapted the security services to the new conditions. veterinary inspection and computer systems, particularly export certificationwhich will come into effect from the first day of next year,” the letter concluded.
The increase in the price of meat has always been a problem for successive governments throughout history and the presidency of Alberto Fernández was no exception, since he resorted to a common tool: restricting or prohibiting exports of different cuts to try contain or push back the values of the public and take care of the “Argentines’ table”.
In 2021, Matías Kulfas, then Minister of Productive Development, reported that Only a volume of up to 50 percent of the 2020 average exports was allowed to be exported.. Before any restrictions, the export of beef was one million tons, a figure that showed a year-on-year growth of 10%. This represented a business of regarding USD 3,126 million and 8% of the foreign sales made by the agroindustrial sector. There, Argentina produced regarding 3.2 million tons of beef, and almost a similar number of chicken and pork.
Meat increased in December and they expect low consumption in 2024
Days before Christmas Eve, meat made an abrupt jump in price increases. Faced with the economic crisis caused by inflation and the devaluation of purchasing power, People chose not to consume and in the last days of December producers, butchers and the market decided to lower the price.
Sergio Pedace, vice president of the Argentine Chamber of Slaughterers and Suppliers, said that “the rise was excessive” due to the revolution of changes that made the bullock rise and “now it began to reach its level.” “People did not validate the price, the exporters also withdrew from the purchase and the Cañuelas market, which is the price maker, began to decline and we have a 30% less in relation to the 2 thousand that the bull had raised”he added.
For his part, the coordinator of the Livestock and Meat Roundtable and former president of the Argentine Rural Confederations (CRA), Dardo Chiesa, recognized this Monday that meat consumption “is going to go down a lot” in 2024 and it might even be below 40 kilos per year per person, due to the drop in purchasing power and lower production.
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Mario Ravettinopresident of the ABC Consortium, stated that the export of beef during 2023 ended with “a good year in volume, with sales abroad of regarding 920 thousand tons of bone-in beef, which is an important number. The volume obtained is slightly higher by 5% than that registered in 2022.”
Likewise, the reference for the exporting refrigerator segment said that it concludes “a very lean year in foreign currency income, since the values offered by the international market are low“This is how sales abroad for 2,730 million dollars will be finalized in 2023.”
Although he supported Kirchnerism, Ravettino said that from the sector “they maintain expectations (to improve) volume in 2024″, following having been notified days ago from the official sphere of “the culmination of the decree prohibiting the export of the seven cuts, and also of the sworn export declarations and the Price Observatory, and of all the obstacles that the sector”.
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