Beef exports have risen to over 7000 tons deadweight per month, figures have shown.

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Uruguay has a ‘flock’ of nine six-month ‘brilliant’ lambs which behave as any other sheep but are really genetically modified and are planned to help with medicine research.

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The Congress will take place on 8-9 November 2016, in Punta del Este

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Beef trading has received a welcome boost thanks to increased uptake from the Chinese market.

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The International Meat Secretariat World Meat Congress in 2016 will be held in Uruguay.

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Uruguay’s per capita consumption of meats last year reached 98 kilos which represents a 3.4% increase over 2011 and above the average of developed countries that stands at 78 kilos per person per year, according to stats released by the country’s National Meats Institute, INAC.

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Controversy over Uruguay’s summer season: supermarket sales were down 15%

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Uruguay reports lower inflation in March but the first quarter index was 3.59%.

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Australia is not the only beef exporter benefiting from the surge in demand from China, with Uruguay also experiencing a kick in shipments to China, with exports for the first two months of 2013 maintaining the much higher volumes of 2012.

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For the third month in only the last six months, China became the number one destination for Uruguayan beef, totalling 5,190 tonnes swt in February - a five-fold increased year-on-year, with frozen forequarter accounting for 21% of total shipments.

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World Bank outstands Uruguay as a success story in economic and social recovery.

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Steady global demand underpinned Brazilian and Uruguayan beef exports in the first month of 2013, with lower Brazilian prices helping to increase shipments, while higher Uruguayan exports reflected increased buying from China and the US.

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Electronic tagging systems have radically improved cattle traceability which has been vital for the national pride of a country that has 11 million head of beef cattle and is one of the world’s major beef exporters.

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Lower prices throughout 2012 helped Uruguayan sheepmeat exports increase 5% year-on-year, to 18,165 tonnes cwt, with Brazil the major market for Uruguayan lamb (IPCVA).

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Uruguay was selected as the seat of the International Meat Secretariat‘s 21st World Meat Congress in 2016 during this year’s World Meat Congress in Paris.

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Uruguayan beef exports for the first nine months of 2012 increased 13% year-on-year, to 188,054 tonnes swt, with increased volumes to Chile, Israel, China and US.

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Like Australia, South American nations have also experienced a kick in beef exports to China in 2012, with exports from Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay all up during the first ten months of the year.

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Uruguay admits inflation is “decisively much higher” than expected.

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President of the Uruguayan meat promotion body INAC, Alfredo Fratti, will be part of an official delegation visiting Vietnam and Singapore at the beginning of November to promote Uruguayan beef.

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Uruguayan beef exports for the first nine months of 2012 increased 13 per cent year-on-year, to 188,054 tonnes swt, with increased volumes to Chile, Israel, China and US.

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Uruguay in September definitively loses control of 2012 inflation target

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Banking group Lloyds selling Uruguay’s operations to Swiss Banque Heritage.

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Uruguayan beef exports for the first six months of 2012 increased 14% year-on-year, to 125,674 tonnes swt (INAC), with larger volumes to Israel, the US and Chile.

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Korea’s Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry & Fisheries (MIFAFF) recently announced that Korea may start importing Uruguayan beef as early as October (Seoul Economic Daily).

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Mujica forecasts Venezuela will rapidly become Uruguay’s third trade partner.

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Uruguay reports rising sales to China Uruguay says it has increased exports of high-value beef cuts to China by a factor of 10 over the past three years.

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On a recent spring evening, guests at a garden party hosted by Uruguayan meat and wine producers sighed with pleasure as chefs at a Beijing hotel grilled savory bites of beef strip loin, rib-eye steak, lamb shoulder and French-cut rack of lamb.

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Uruguay will send bill to liberalize trade and consumption of marihuana.

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Uruguay will host the 21st World Meat Congress in 2016, said the Uruguay President’s Office in a news release.

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Uruguay meat exports so far this year total 195.459 tons and 766 million dollars.

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Uruguayan beef exports for January to April increased 10% compared to the corresponding period last year, to 83,101 swt (National Meat Institute).

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Soybeans becomes Uruguay’s main export item, estimated at 1.1bn in 2012

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Uruguay fish exports increase 20% in volume totalling 236 million dollars in 2011

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Uruguay became prisoner of Argentina, when it rejected a free trade accord with the US Uruguay has fallen prisoner of Mercosur and Argentina because it did not sign the free trade agreement with the United States which was offered to the country in the previous government of Tabare Vazquez, said two-times President Julio Maria Sanguinetti.

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Durante el próximo mes de abril llegará una misión china a Uruguay para actualizar el protocolo sanitario que data de 1987 y que incluye las ventas a ese país de carne con hueso y menudencias, exportaciones que según el gobierno no están trabadas, pero que han generado hermetismo en diferentes actores vinculados al complejo cárnico.

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Uruguayan sheep processing has begun 2012 slowly, with slaughter at certified units the lowest in nine years.

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China has approved new licences for Uruguayan beef exports said the Ururguyan Minister of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries (MCAP), Tabaré Aguerre.

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Uruguayan cattle slaughter is forecast to decline during 2012 to the lowest level in nine years.

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Grass-fed beef from Uruguay is considered among the best in the world

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Uruguayan sheep processing has begun 2012 slowly, with slaughter at certified units the lowest in nine years.

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Uruguayan cattle slaughter is forecast to decline during 2012 to the lowest level in nine years.

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Mujica promises to “fight to the death” for the future of Mercosur

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Uruguay tiene que hacer una mayor promoción y publicidad de sus carnes en China para lograr un mayor impacto en ese mercado de enorme potencial, dijo el miércoles pasado el embajador del gigante asiático, Qu Shengwu, en el marco de las conferencias realizadas durante la Expoactiva de Soriano.

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The Uruguay Ministry of Agriculture has temporarily suspended the imports of genetic material from European countries due to the outbreak of Schmallenberg virus.

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Meat consumption in Uruguay is on the rise reaching 94.7kg per person per year in 2011.

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Demand for meat is firm. In 2011 the share of beef fell from 64.8 per cent to 64 per cent compared to 2010, while increased consumption of poultry meat and pork in the previous year.

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Total slaughter for 2012 in Uruguay is expected to fall 100,000 head year-on-year to 1.9 million head, the lowest level in nine years, according to the World Beef Report.

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Flexible measures are needed to eradicate brucellosis in Uruguay, US expert Valerie Raggan, told the president of the Rural Association of Uruguay (ARU), José Bonica.

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Demand for meat is firm. In 2011 the share of beef fell from 64.8 per cent to 64 per cent compared to 2010, while increased consumption of poultry meat and pork in the previous year.

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Three countries of the former Soviet Union, Moldova, Georgia and Tajikistan, are interested in buying beef from Uruguay, as expressed by representatives of these markets to members of the Uruguayan delegation participating in the Fair Prodexpo in Russia.

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Uruguay beef exports totalled 19,750 tonnes swt in January, slightly higher than the 19,633 tonnes swt sent in January 2011.

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Inflation, over-valued currency and threat to exports, Uruguay’s 2012 challenge

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Relations with the Uruguayan government couldn’t be better, with no obstacles ahead, and much of the success of the Uruguayan economy is influenced by Argentina, said ambassador in Montevideo Dante Dovena.

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Relations with the Uruguayan government couldn’t be better, with no obstacles ahead, and much of the success of the Uruguayan economy is influenced by Argentina, said ambassador in Montevideo Dante Dovena.

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Three cruise vessels with 5.000 passengers spend Christmas in Punta del Este

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You don’t have to be a woman to be a gynaecologist, having said that I am sure a woman doctor has far more insight into this field than a man. Equally you don’t have to be a slaughterman to judge a meat plant, but by God we old slaughtermen know a bit about the job.

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Uruguay's ruling coalition has 7 points lead over the opposition

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Moody’s raises Uruguay’s credit rating to Ba1, one level below investment grade

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Uruguay has stepped up its controls in the pig sector to evade infection of Foot-and-Mouth Disease, which has struck Paraguay.

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Mercosur is stalled: nobody comes knocking on the door, says Mujica

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