Japanese market: shortage of imported refrigerated pork

Introduction: fude.com, June 17, according to Japan economic news, Japan's massive import of pork from abroad seems to have a more significant impact on the market than before Recently, the wholesale price of imported frozen meat in Japanese pork market began to rise There are many factors that cause this phenomenon The main reason is that the crackdown on people's confidence in beef consumption caused by mad cow disease is hard to recover for a while, which makes pork become an alternative consumer goods and get more market demand In addition, after April, the number of imported pork has declined compared with the year-round, and summer is the peak season of pork consumption in the Japanese market At present, in the bulk trading market of Tokyo market, the consumption of pork in the Japanese market has increased by about 10% compared with the annual demand, which is an alternative meat variety produced in the United States It is estimated that this consumption pattern will continue Moreover, according to the market survey, Japanese pig importers draw the conclusion that the market demand for pork in Japanese market will increase Based on this kind of market expectation, since last autumn, the number of pork imports has been growing, and it has continued to the end of March this year However, by April, the import volume of chilled pork had decreased by about 9% compared with the same period in 2001, which naturally led to the imbalance of market supply and demand.