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Record export of Polish meat to China

According to statistics, China Customs Statistics, in 2012, the Polish meat exports to China amounted to 31.13 million U.S. dollars (41.3 million - GUS data for 11 months) including: frozen pork and offal - U.S. $ 26.7 million (37 , 0 million CSO), chicken wings $ 4.2 million (4.3 million - CSO). This is the highest level in the history of Polish meat exports to China - gives the Department of Trade and Investment Promotion of the Polish Embassy in Beijing.

Monthly value of meat exports to China from 415 thousand. USD for the first half of the 6 following months came to 8.8 million in November, and 8.4 million in December.

Trade and Investment estimates that it is the effect of such efforts of the Polish government and the Polish diplomacy, through which succeeded in opening the Chinese market to Polish meat - currently has 14 approval of Polish meat plants. For comparison, the United Kingdom or the Netherlands have allowed only a few plants.

Polish meat goes mostly to Chinese restaurants and first-class hotels, where the priority is the quality of the food. Guest industry experts suggest that the demand for food will increase by 25 percent. by 2022, and food imports to China will increase 10 percent. year. This means that the Chinese market for the meat, with a population of over one billion three hundred million consumers, is still insatiable, and each ton of Polish meat will find here their customers.

Poland's 12 largest exporter of meat (no fish meat) to China, which in 2012 imported meat total of EUR 4 106.5 million. One third of the meat came from the U.S. and 26 percent. with the EU. Among the countries of the European Union, which together exported meat to EUR 1 087.8 million, the Polish contribution was only 3 percent. and was lower than the twelve Danish exports (Denmark is the European leader in meat sales to China - 364.3 million) and nine times lower than the German (287.5 million USD).