EUROPEAN UNION MEAT EXPORTS TO DECLINE IN COMING DECADE SAYS EUROPEAN COMMISSION
January 1st, 2011
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union's meat sector will continue to lose exportsto non-EU countries over the next 10 years, creating trade deficits for all major market segments, except pigmeat, a European Commission commodity forecast to 2020 has predicted. Even for poultry - which alone of major European meat sub-sectors increased production in 2008 and 2009 - exports from the European Union will be outstripped by imports over the next 10 years. By 2020, 155,000 tonnes more poultry would be imported than exported, it claimed. Very little pigmeat is imported ...
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