{"id":200388,"date":"2018-09-04T17:13:08","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T20:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=200388"},"modified":"2018-09-06T14:03:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T17:03:59","slug":"poultry-exports-dropped-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/poultry-exports-dropped-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Poultry exports dropped in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The Brazilian Animal Protein Association (<a href=\"http:\/\/abpa-br.com.br\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ABPA<\/a>) reported this Tuesday (04) that Brazil exported 396,900 tons of poultry in August, down 4.6% in comparison to the same month of last year. However, the volume came in 59,800 tons above the 2018 monthly exports average.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign sales generated USD 633.8 million, a drop of 7.9% over August 2017. \u201cSouth Africa stood out as a main poultry importer in the month, with orders close to 40,000 tons,\u201d said ABPA\u2019s president, Francisco Turra, according to a statement by the association.<\/p>\n<p>Exports to Arab countries totaled USD 206.9 million in the month, a decline of 12% over August of last year, according to data from the Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services (MDIC). The country shipped 133,600 tons to Arab countries, down 9.4% in the same comparison.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Year-to-date<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From January to August, 2.7 million tons of poultry were shipped, a decline of 7.7% over the same period of last year. Revenues reached USD 4.31 billion, a drop of 11.8% in the same comparison.<\/p>\n<p>Year-to-date, exports to Arab countries totaled USD 1.4 billion, a fall of 22.3% over 2017\u2019s first eight months. Arab countries imported 933,500 tons, down 15.3% in the same comparison.<\/p>\n<p>Turra believes that Brazilian poultry exports, overall, could reach 4.2 million tons until the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by S\u00e9rgio Kakitani <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-200382\">Rodrigo Fonseca\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country shipped 397,000 tons abroad, down 4.6% over the same month of 2017. However, the volume surpassed 2018\u2019s monthly average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":200382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[334,33847,4641,376,4208,2929,394,4845],"class_list":{"0":"post-200388","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-agribusiness","8":"tag-abpa","9":"tag-carne-en-2","10":"tag-exportacao-en","11":"tag-exports","12":"tag-francisco-turra","13":"tag-meats","14":"tag-poultry","15":"tag-poultry-industry"},"wps_subtitle":"The country shipped 397,000 tons abroad, down 4.6% over the same month of 2017. However, the volume surpassed 2018\u2019s monthly average.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}