date:Mar 11, 2019
record level.
US suppliers were unable to divert lost sales to other markets; December shipments to South-East Asia and Japan were off 23 percent and 30 percent, respectively. In the six months since retaliatory tariffs were put in place (i.e., the period between July and December), US whey exports to China were down 39 percent (-8,078 tonne per month).
Cheese exports improved in December to 28,854 tonne, up six per cent from December 2017. Sales increased to Mexico (+12 percent), South Korea