Brazil is expected to export more than 200,000 tonnes of beef to China this year. It means the South American nation will become the main beef supplier in 2016 to the world’s second largest economy, said the Brazilian Refrigeration Association (Abrafrigo).
In the first quarter of this year Brazil exported 122,200 tonnes of beef to China – including Hong Kong – a increase of 42.9 percent from the previous year, online media Macauhub reported. Such volume also represented 34 percent of Brazil’s total beef exports, the report said.
From December 2012, Mainland China had imposed an embargo on beef from the South American nation. It followed a suspected case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy – more commonly known as mad cow disease – in the Brazilian state of Paraná. The import ban was officially revoked in November 2014 and Mainland China began to buy Brazilian beef in June 2015.
