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The European Union (excluding the United Kingdom) ended the year with a total of 3,197,540 tonnes carcass weight of pork and pork products exported to China, according to data from DG Agri. This represents an increase of 45% over the previous year.
In 20 years, the EU has gone from exporting just over 58,000 t to China to over 3 million, an increase of 5,400%.
In 2010 China accounted for only 5.5% of total European pork exports while today it represents over half (53.5%), with total European exports in 2020 reaching 5,973,123 tonnes.
Evolution of European exports of pork products to China. Source: 333 based on data from DG Agri.
In 2020, frozen pork accounted for 67% of the pork products exported, followed by offal with 26.6% of the total, and fats and lard with 4.7%.
March 3, 2021/ 333 Staff with data from DG Agri.
