Press release No. N 058 of 16 September 2020
- Exports peaked: 233,300 tonnes of pork were exported to China in the first half of 2020 - more than twice the volume of a year earlier
- Pig-keeping in Germany has decreased for years: -3.9% compared with 2010
- Above-average increase in pork prices for German consumers: +8.6% from August 2019 to August 2020
WIESBADEN – Since the first case of African swine fever was recorded in Brandenburg last Thursday, the meat industry in Germany has been under pressure. Especially the ban on exports to China has hit the domestic enterprises. The Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) reports that the People's Republic of China became the most important trading partner for pork exports in the first half of 2020. From January to June 2020, a total 233,300 tonnes of pork was exported to China, that was 26.8% of total pork exports. This means that exports to the People’s Republic more than doubled compared with the same period a year earlier (percentage of exports, January to June 2019: 12.9%). Overall, 870,700 tonnes of pork to the value of 2.4 billion euros were exported in the first half of 2020.
