US poultry and egg exports up in value in 2017
Combined exports of U.S. poultry and eggs were $4.509 billion in 2017, up $427.1 million from 2016, according to trade data released by the Foreign Agricultural Service.
The value of U.S. poultry and egg exports had declined in the last three years after the highly pathogenic avian influenza outbreak in the U.S. in 2014 and 2015. Export value fell 25.8 percent in 2015 alone. The crisis cost the U.S. industry more than $4 billion, the worst revenue loss in the industry’s history. Nationwide import bans imposed by many countries on U.S. product have nearly all been lifted since then, except for China.
“The good news is that, knock on wood, the U.S. has not had an avian influenza incident for nearly a year, and our industry has made a remarkable recovery, stepping up biosecurity and recovering nearly every lost market,” said James Sumner, president of USAPEEC. “The only major market remaining closed is China, and we suspect the reason is more political in nature than it is science-based.”
The value of exports of poultry meat, including chicken, turkey and duck, rose 9.8 percent in 2017 to $4.260 billion. Volume increased 3.1 percent to 3,716,360 metric tons.
The value of egg exports, including table eggs plus egg products in shell egg equivalent, jumped 22.7 percent to $248.9 million. Volume soared 27.3 percent to 263.2
million dozen.
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