São Paulo – Poultry exports from Brazil were down 36.9% year-on-year in June. Exports of raw and processed poultry items added up to 234,100 tons during the month, the Brazilian Animal Protein Association (ABPA) reported this Wednesday (4). The amount is down 30% from 333,200 tons shipped abroad last May.
Export revenues shrank by 41.9% year-on-year in June and by 30.8% in June from May, to USD 358.1 million. The ABPA said the trucker strike in May took away from sales, and this was only factored into export statistics in June.
“Sales slid by 99,100 tons and USD 159.4 million in June from May as a direct consequence of highway and seaport blockades during the trucker strike. Shipped amounts decreased to all importing markets,” a press release quoted ABPA chairman Francisco Turra as saying.
Through June this year, 1.835 million tons of poultry had been shipped abroad from Brazil, down 13.5% from the first half of 2017. First-half revenue was down 17.4% to USD 2.960 billion.
Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
