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  • Russia, Hong Kong and Angola were the major export destinations for pork from Brazil

    BRAZIL, 2014/02/13 Russia, Hong Kong and Angola were the major export destinations for pork from Brazil in January of this year, the president of the Brazilian Association of Industrial Pork Meat Production and Export (ABIPECS) said. According to Rui Eduardo Saldanha Vargas, in the initial month of the year Brazil exported 34,800 tons of pork, which was a year on year drop of 13.09 % and provided revenues of US$90.27 million. The president of ABIPECS said that Russia accounted for 34.56 % of foreign sales and for 41.36 % of revenues, followed by Hong Kong (26.48 % and 24.23 %) and Angola, with 11.61 % and 7.28 %, respectively.
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