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An Argentine Beef Festival was arranged last February in Helsinki, Finland. To promote the product, a big banquet was held at the Helsinki Oasis Hotel with the Argentine ambassador. Representatives of the IPCVA traveled to Washington, DC, to negotiate a special contract to ease export of Argentine beef to the North American market.
Exports had soared after the collapse of 2001 forced the government to let the national currency (the peso) float and depreciate. As a result, internal prices of beef, a major staple of Argentine diet, rose considerably, and part of the beef production was diverted from the local market to importers abroad.
By far the top buyer of Argentine beef is China, though it imports cheaper cuts not used domestically. "The export sector is going through a very tough time even though it keeps exporting big volumes.
In the mid-2000s, export of unprocessed soybeans, soybean oil, and meal generated more than 20% of Argentina's export revenue, triple the joint share of the traditional exports of beef and wheat. [139] Export taxes comprised 8% to 11% of the Kirchner government's total tax receipts, around two-thirds from soy exports. [143]
The push, after a massive spike in Argentine beef exports to the world's No. 2 economy this year, underscores how China is looking to diversify its protein supply, shaking up the global meat trade ...
BUENOS AIRES/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Argentina is on the verge of signing a deal with the United States that would allow two-way trade of fresh beef for the first time in nearly two decades, the South ...
Beef and other meats are some of the most important agricultural export products of Argentina. Nearly 5 million tonnes of meats (not including seafood) are produced in Argentina, long the world's leading beef consumer on a per capita basis. Beef accounts for 3.2 million tonnes (not counting 500,000 tonnes of edible offal).
Argentina is the world's top exporter of processed soy oil and meal, the third largest for corn and an important wheat and beef producer. It has major lithium reserves needed for electric ...