More than 1,000 new meat companies, 71 port restrictions, meat

As new cases in Africa, the European Union and the Asia-Pacific region accelerate, the global situation of prevention and control of the new coronary pneumonia virus is becoming more serious, while threatening the health of more people, the world economy is being hit hard like never before, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has made a forecast for negative global economic growth in 2020, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned that there may be a food supply crisis in April-May 2020 Dqf in this crisis and great shock, the global agricultural trade is also one of the focus of attention With more than 70 countries and regions sealing up, sealing cities, restricting ports, flights and people flow, China's imports and supplies of soybeans, corn and other grains and meat have also been hit as the world's largest importer of agricultural products However, as things stand, the impact on imports is not as big as thought, as most ports in China's major importers of soybeans, corn and poultry are still stepping up inspections and loading, especially as the United States imports Of China's soybeans and poultry meat, while farm workers and agricultural products are increasingly at risk of transportation from origin to ports Dqf port cargo restrictions are small, but the risk of delay is high
Dqf Johns Hopkins University (JHU) real-time monitoring data show that as of 9:34 A.M Beijing time on April 6, 2020, the global new coronary pneumonia virus outbreak has been confirmed more than 1.27 million people, 206 countries and regions around the world without exception to its attack (see figure below) DqfDqf, in conjunction with the COVID-19 global port restriction online platform of the World's leading shipping agency, Wilhelmen Group, and the China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CBI), have restricted onions, garlic, rye, rice, and onions in 30 countries as of April 1 Exports of goods such as buckwheat, 71 countries (regions) closed all/part of the border crossings or strengthened quarantine situations, most of the country's main restrictions are prohibited crew replacement and not to land on vacation, a total of 124 countries (regions) on flights / trains / ships restrictions, and more than 20 ports in China have also imposed crew restrictions According to incomplete statistics, a total of 78 countries (regions) due to the impact of the new coronary pneumonia virus outbreak of a state of emergency or sealed the country, the city DqfDqfDqf From the current point of view, China's soybean, corn, poultry meat major importers are the United States, Brazil, Ukraine, Argentina, Russia, Thailand and other countries, these six countries in China's imports of soybeans, corn, poultry meat in any one of the total share of More than 90%, although the current restrictions are issued, in addition to Ukraine suspended some ports, Argentina restricted part of the port, other countries have not been due to the direct impact of the outbreak of the new coronavirus closed ports, such as Brazil, the United States, individual ports suspended for 1-2 days only because of reduced cargo volume measures According to a report released by Moody's Investors Service (MIS), container throughput at U.S ports is expected to decline by 15% to 20% in the first quarter of 2020, and global shipping container shipping volume sits 5 to 10 percent or more in 2020 Dqf For example, Ukraine, the largest importer of Corn in China, imported 9322 million tons of corn from Ukraine in January-February 2020, of which 804,000 tons were imported from Ukraine, representing a proportion of 86.33 percent On March 30, Ukraine set a 20.2 million tonnes limit for wheat exports for 2019-2020 to ensure that bread prices do not rise during the outbreak As of March 30, Ukraine had exported 17.8 million tons of wheat On 14 March, the State Border Service of Ukraine announced the closure of 107 border crossings, leaving only 123 ports open Dqf, for example, Mediterranean Shipping said in a March 31 announcement that it had cancelled the 15th week of the Jaguar and The Maple routes in order to properly plan the capacity of the Asian-North American West Coast route The 16th week of the Jaguar route and the 19th week of the Maple route will also be cancelled in the west coast of North America to Asia Dqf from a global perspective, COVID-19 is testing the entire agricultural and food system, in addition to the Mediterranean Sea and other sea routes to cancel a certain period of time, some ports to strengthen inspection and prevention to delay the cargo, sea crew shipping by replacement restrictions at the same time also face infection THE RISK OF COVID-19, LACK OF FARM LABOR DUE TO GEOGRAPHICAL AND BORDER RESTRICTIONS, FARM LIQUIDITY AND SOLVENCY FACE NEW TESTS THAT AFFECT THE REDUCTION OF SOYBEAN AND CORN CULTIVATION AREA, REGIONAL RESTRICTIONS MAKE FOOD TRANSPORTATION DIFFICULT, HOME ISOLATION MAKES PEOPLE'S CONSUMPTION DEMAND FOR FRESH FOOD SUCH AS POULTRY AND OTHER FOOD SHRINKS However, for the Chinese market, the export of seaborne goods due to the cancellation of foreign orders and restrictions, such as OOCL Container Shipping (China) Co., Ltd on March 26, 2020 issued a list of cancellations of the Pacific route from April to May, a total of 2 (P) NW2, Hanging Order: Yantian - Xiamen - Ningbo - Shanghai - Busan - Seattle - Vancouver - Qingdao) departs from Yantian on April 15, April 20 and May 1 Dqf, FAO, WHO, WTO issued a joint statement on March 31st, saying that while measures were taking to protect the health and well-being of the population, countries should ensure that trade-related measures did not impede the proper functioning of food supply chains; Dqf the U.S is the largest importer of soybeans in China, but the soybean trade remains volatile
according to Chinese customs data, China imported 13.51 million tons of soybeans in January-February 2020, an increase of 14.22 percent over the same period last year China imported 6.101 million tons of soybeans from the U.S., nearly five-fold from 1.044 million tons a year earlier, and the U.S overtook Brazil as China's largest importer of soybeans Over the same period, China imported 5.14 million tons of soybeans from Brazil, down 26% from 6.916 million tonnes a year earlier In January 2020, the U.S and China reached the first phase of the trade deal, and after the Chinese government issued additional duty-free quotas on some U.S goods, soybean traders bought more U.S soybeans Dqf According to a report released by the U.S Department of Agriculture on April 2, the U.S exported a total of 31.7595 million tons of soybeans to various places in the week ended March 26, 2020, and the total amount of soybeans awaiting shipment was 5.102 million tons, of which 12.138 million tons were exported to china and 335,000 tons were waiting for shipment Earlier, on March 30, USDA's export inspection report showed that 2,057 tons of soybeans had been shipped to China in inland U.S ports, and that ports in the North Atlantic, South Atlantic and Mississippi rivers had not shipped soybeans to China (see table below) DqfDqfDqfDqf USDqf UsDqf UsDqf UsDqf UsDqf reported on April 2nd that in the week ending March 26, 2020, the cumulative u.S exports of corn (unmilled) to various places amounted to 18.3066 million tons, and the total amount of soybeans awaiting shipment reached 13.608 million tons, of which 611,000 tons were exported to mainland China and 756,000 tons of soybeans were waiting to be loaded Data released by Dqf Brazil's Ministry of Trade show that in March 2020, Brazil exported 11.64 million tons of soybeans, compared with 5.12 million tons in February, compared with 8.46 million tons in the same period last year; Brazil is expected to export 73-74 million tons of soybeans and 34-35 million tons of corn by 2020, according to officials at The National Association of Grain Exporters (ANEC) Since the vast majority of Brazil's soybean exports are destined for China, the forecast depends on the continued operation of ports in Brazil and China during the new crown outbreak Dqf Reported that despite the tough challenges of COVID-19, JBS, the global meat export giant, expects strong demand from China to keep its trade volume steady JBS executives said on a conference call on March 26, 2020 that their export operations had not been affected by any disruption and would use their long-term relationships with shipping companies to keep exports open Gilberto Tomazoni, JBS's chief executive, said local supply was tight due to the African swine flu, with pork import tariffs cut by 30 per cent and JBS not cutting investment and production plans, with the priority being to continue producing food while maintaining employment Dqf 127 new poultry enterprises, meat imports continued to increase
Dqf and soybean, corn trade, China's meat import trade volume is small but more change Data released by the Chinese Customs show that from January 1 to March 31, 2020, the General Administration of Customs of China approved the addition of 1041 new countries or regions that meet the requirements for evaluation and examination of Chinese meat enterprises, including 127 new poultry meat export enterprises, 455 pork enterprises and 458 beef enterprises For example, data released on April 3, 2020 show that eight new thai chicken companies have been producing chinese-compliant chicken products from March 31, 2020 and beyond Previously updated on March 17th: 447 new U.S pork companies, 438 beef enterprises, and 58 poultry meat companies have been produced in China since March 17, 2020 So far, in the United States and China poultry trade opened just three months, the new chinese poultry meat exports to the United States poultry enterprises (farms) reached 271 DqfDqfDqf China customs data show that in January-February 2020, China's imports of meat increased by 560,000 tons, an increase of 158.1% YoY; 160,000 tons, an increase of 91.2% year-on-year, of which Brazil (61 per cent), Argentina (10.3 per cent), Russia (10.18 per cent) thailand (9.51 per cent) accounted for about 91 per cent of poultry imports, with the United States accounting for about 0.53 per cent With the addition of the United States, Thailand and other countries to China poultry enterprises increase, China's poultry meat may continue to increase According to the forecast issued by the National Livestock Station, by 2020, China's pork imports will reach about 3 million tons, beef imports will be about 2 million tons, lamb imports will be about 350,000 tons, and poultry imports will be about 850,000 tons DqfDqf According to a report released by the U.S Department of Agriculture on April 2, the U.S exported 521,800 tons of pork (fresh/frozen/frozen) to various places in the week ended March 26, 2020, and the total amount of pork awaiting shipment was 330.7 million tons, of which 20,05 million tons were exported to mainland China and 123.8 million tons of pork were being shipped Dqf