The U.S. share of that market dropped from 70 per cent in 2017 to 46 per cent in 2019.
Clay Eastwood, director of international marketing for the National Pork Board, said regaining that market from Canada is one of the goals to offset an anticipated reduction of exports to China.
United States President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the TPP in 2017, but then signed a deal with Japan to gain TPP terms for trade with it alone.
Eastwood is anticipating that exports to China will be strong for the short term and possibly even increase now that China has banned imports from Germany because African Swine Fever has been detected in a wild boar in that country.
But in the longer term, China will reduce pork imports as it rebuilds its hog population, Eastwood said. It’s pork industry was devastated by African Swine Fever.
Canada is likely to experience a similar roller coaster ride on exports to China.
