The beef export sector would have a historic 2025 and would reach an income of $3.7 billion per year, the highest value in the last 15 years.
This was announced by the President of the Meat Exporters Consortium (ABC). Mario Ravettinowhich ensured that although shipping volumes would be below the previous year’s level, good international prices would allow this volume to be achieved.
“From last year’s 770,000, we will be at 700,000 tonnes 25% or 26% increase“Said Ravettino in dialogue with Clarín.
In this sense, he explained that “markets have had firm prices this year, with a decline in the last phase.” But hey, these are the predictions we have and how we expect we will end 2025. It is the best data from the last 15 years“.
But beyond the excellent results of 2025, next year presents some challenges for the industry: the promised expansion of the quota from 20,000 to 80,000 tonnes The United States and the Chinese protectwhich could limit exports to this destination.
On the first issue, Ravettino pointed out that there is “a confidentiality agreement” between both governments, but that it is not a quota but rather a confidentiality agreement “collective reciprocity agreement”which “is determined by the two executive branches. It remains fixed but may be changed later in the future, even if the agreements made remain in place.”
“There would be 80,000 tons more than the 20,000 we have, but on reciprocity: that is what that means.” They can travel from Argentina to the United States and they can come from the United States to Argentina. “With zero tariff and tariff positions similar to the 20,000, so that they would be broad and we could send a wide range of products such as quality cuts.”
Regarding the Chinese protectionwhich will be set on January 26 after a two-month postponement and could mean a limit on imports from Argentina as well as other supplying countries, Ravettino took the view that, beyond the decision of the authorities of the Asian country, “China needs animal protein”.
“I think this will end with a quote.one quota per country. The criterion is used past performance of the last three years, meaning the volume remains the same. Within the quota it is very likely that the current tariff position of 12% will be maintained. “These are assumptions we make based on the last meeting we had with the Chinese Ministry of Commerce in early November,” he said.
In addition, he emphasized that “February is Chinese New Year and they need goods.” So there are health, technical and commercial issues in all of this that I think are being considered and analyzed today. I don’t think the protection is, I hope, very aggressive with the exporting countries and that it achieves the goal that they had in implementing it, which was to try not to harm Chinese livestock farming in this case.”
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