From the Newsroom*<\/STRONG><\/P> S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Exports of bovine meat from Brazil grew by 31% in the first half of this year compared with the same period last year. From January until June, foreign sales totalled US$ 2.2 billion. Shipments totalled 1.36 million tonnes, an increase of 26.69% compared with the first half of 2006. The data were disclosed today (11) by the Brazilian Beef Industry and Exporters Association (Abiec).<\/P> Russia remained as the leader in the ranking for main importer countries of raw Brazilian meat in the period. The country purchased 329,000 tonnes of the commodity, at a cost of US$ 428.25 million. Egypt, in turn, is still in the second position, having imported 154,800 tonnes for US$ 191.48 million.<\/P> With regard to industrialised Brazilian meat, the United States were the main buyers, with imports of 80,760 tonnes purchased for US$ 147.89 million in the first half of the year. The United Kingdom came in second, habving imported 82,870 tonnes at US$ 87.65 million. The Brazilian commodity is present in 180 different countries.<\/P> In the month of June, Brazilian meat exports totalled US$ 349 million, a 0.6% increase over the same month of last year. In total, 208,000 tonnes were shipped, a 0.98% decrease compared with June 2006.<\/P> The 15 largest importer countries for Brazilian raw meat include Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, and Lybia. Imports of those four Arab countries totalled US$ 65 million last month.<\/P> *Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/STRONG><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brazilian foreign sales of the commodity totalled US$ 2.2 billion from January until June. In total, 1.36 million tonnes were shipped, an increase of 26.6% compared with the same period last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-agribusiness"},"wps_subtitle":"Brazilian foreign sales of the commodity totalled US$ 2.2 billion from January until June. In total, 1.36 million tonnes were shipped, an increase of 26.6% compared with the same period last year.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24452","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\/1466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}