CAS exported more than 141.1 billion US dollars in 2017 – News – Business – Latest news from Uruguay and the world updated

According to the Yearbook of Foreign Trade presented in Montevideo, the countries of the Southern Agricultural Council (Argentina) – Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia and Chile – exported agricultural goods for a total of 141,155 dollars. million in 2017.

The CAS is an organization founded fifteen years ago, in Brasilia, to establish a space for dialogue and articulation of public policies between the Ministries of Livestock of the six member countries , whose seat is in the Uruguayan capital

Although Bolivia also incorporates it, for the 2013-2017 edition of this directory of foreign trade based on agriculture, the data of this country have not been included.

The report – which takes primary agricultural and agro-industrial primary commodities – underscored the importance of the Southern region in the global supply of food and agro-industrial goods.

Thus, detailed that between 2013 and 2017 agricultural exports They accounted for 40% of the total goods exported by the CAS during this period.

"In agrarian products, the region exported on average 63% of agro-industrial products and 37% of primary products for the period considered.", Adds the summary of the Yearbook of Commerce. Soybeans, cellulose and meat were the main products exported by the CAS countries in 2017.

In terms of destinations, China continues to dominate with a share of 24%, followed by the United States ( 5.3%), the Netherlands (4.6%) and Brazil (3%), the rest corresponding to other countries

The report was presented to the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries of Uruguay, in the presence of the owner of the Technical Secretariat of the CAS, Alejandra Sarquis, Coordinator of the Agro-Industrial Chain Sector of the Bureau of Programming and Agricultural Policy (Opypa) , Gonzalo Souto, and the Opypa technique, Leidy Gorga.

Souto, for his part, emphasized that "what is interesting" is that this type of publication makes it possible to "present the whole region in relation to its commercial behavior from the agricultural point of view. and agro-industrial ".