The Asian livestock epidemic will help boost U.S. pork exports

Lead: Chicago, May 13 (Reuters) - the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease in South Korea on Monday will lead some importers to leave South Korea and turn to the United States for inquiry, which will promote the export of pork in the United States to some extent, according to us analysts Livestock analyst Doug Harper said the recent foot-and-mouth disease in South Korea "will not help U.S pork exports much." The competition has decreased, but it is not enough to increase our pork export Affected by the last foot-and-mouth disease, South Korea has not exported pork for two years The FMD outbreak comes at a critical time when Japan is preparing to resume pork imports from South Korea this year The American Meat Export Association said earlier this month that South Korea exported 90000 tons of pork to Japan Japan imported 243000 pork from the United States last year, accounting for half of the total pork exports of the United States Analysts say the figure could increase if Japan replaces the U.S pork with the pork it was planning to import from South Korea On Monday, Japan found its first case of BSE since November last year If consumer fees reduce the consumption of beef and increase the demand for pork, it will also slightly increase the export of pork in the United States But analysts say the increase, if any, will be small Since the outbreak of mad cow disease in Japan last year, U.S beef exports to Japan are slowly recovering recently, but there is still a big gap compared with the previous trade volume According to data from Japan's trade department, Japan imported 54000 tons of US beef from January to March this year, compared with 80000 tons in the same period last year (author:) share to feed Weibo share to: