date:Jun 12, 2012
le cuts and variety meat. These ratios were roughly the same as April 2011 and slightly lower than the first quarter of 2012.
Though April was the slowest month this year for US pork exports to Mexico, volume was up 30 percent over April 2011 and value was 18 percent higher; through April, 2012 exports to Mexico increased 19 percent in volume (207,095 metric tons) and 18 percent in value ($377.4 million) over 2011s record pace; April exports to the China/Hong Kong region were the second-largest