Last year’s protests aside, Korea has regained its spot as the third largest export market for US beef.
Australian beef, though, is still Korea’s No. 1 source of imported beef:
Meat & Livestock Australia chief analyst Peter Weeks said his organization had expected Australia’s share of the South Korea beef market would fall back to 35-40 percent from a peak of 77 percent reached in 2006 as U.S. exports picked up.
But consumer resistance to U.S. beef meant that Australia was likely to maintain a higher market share.
“U.S. inroads into the South Korean market haven’t been as much as expected as there’s still a fair amount of resistance to U.S. beef and that’s led to heavy discounting,” said Weeks who had just returned to Australia from South Korea.
The United States this year overtook New Zealand as the No. 2 exporter to South Korea while Australia remains No. 1.
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All this, but South Korea continutes to defy international law and not import beef from Canada. Canada has stronger testing measures by far than Korea…and stronger than the US…yet still Korea refuses to import.
Many Koreans demand Canadian beef, because it is cheaper.
Follow this link for more
http://www.canada.com/business/fp/story.html?id=1412278
Gumi, can you cite sources regarding the test measures in Canada versus the US and Korea? Also, can you point to a study that shows Koreans’ desire for Canadian beef?
The first “American” cow that had BSE in 2003 was Canadian, you know. http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/!ut/p/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1OB/.cmd/ad/.ar/sa.retrievecontent/.c/6_2_1UH/.ce/7_2_5JM/.p/5_2_4TQ/.d/7/_th/J_2_9D/_s.7_0_A/7_0_1OB?PC_7_2_5JM_contentid=2003/12/0445.html&PC_7_2_5JM_navtype=RT&PC_7_2_5JM_parentnav=TRANSCRIPTS_SPEEC
I wonder if Australian will continue to hold the top spot for a while, due to all the hysteria about US beef and the fact that Burger King, McDonald’s etc. proudly proclaim to be using Australian beef. I remember an advertisement at McDonald’s when the protests were in full swing that translated, basically, as “We use only Australian beef because we care about your health.”
Whenever I cook some of the imported American beef, I end up with a few bits of meat floating in a sea of fat. I don’t know if its all the same, but that’s what is sold at the local supermarket. I’ll stick with Australian beef for now.
#2,
Got infected eating American feed?
tmc1233
As far as Canada’s testing measures go to http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/madcow/
For Korean’s desire I can’t really site any internet source but those Koreans I talk to on a daily basis. I teach a class of Restaurant owners and they are the ones that mentioned Canadian beef, which sent me researching the subject in the first place. It is cheaper, and if you know anything about Korean businessmen that should say enough about their desire.
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