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The vast majority of South Korea’s pork imports consisted of frozen product and as ever there were winners and losers. Imports from Canada decreased 3.0 percent from December to 2,864 MT, down a total of 12.8 percent from a year earlier. However, Canada was the largest provider of pork to South Korea during January accounting for 24.6 percent of the total imports.

The main beneficiary was Chile who saw its exports to South Korea rising a massive 48% from December 2003 to 2,210 MT. Chile pork trade with South Korea has increased by 175.6 percent year on year.

There was good news for US producers who saw South Korea’s US imports rise 3.8 percent over December to 1,205 MT, although the year on year figures were down 6.7 percent from January 2003.

Source: ThePigSite.com from KITA - 8th March 2004