Paraguayan meat expects opening of South Korea, Singapore and Philippines by 2025

Paraguay is expanding its meat export markets, with plans to start commercial operations in Singapore, the Philippines, and Mexico in the first half of the year. The country has already started exporting to the United States and Canada. It also expects to start exporting to South Korea and the Philippines in 2024. Additionally, Paraguay will benefit from a quota with a preferential tariff for chilled and frozen meat through the Mercosur free trade agreement with the European Union. However, progress with exporting to Japan has been slow.

Singapore and the Philippines are also in the pipeline, as well as the start of the first commercial operations with Mexico, planned for the first half of the year. “The presence of markets interested in our meat is the result of many years of work that involved strategic visits, exchange of documentation, insistence and very successful progress,” Senacsa president José Carlos Martin told Valor Agro. He added: “We were able to move forward with Southeast Asia, where we were somewhat afraid of whether it was possible due to the relationship with Taiwan, but finally it was clear that we were able to achieve positive results.” Paraguay achieved the audit of South Korea and the Philippines in 2024, and is waiting for the arrival of a mission from Singapore. Meanwhile, in 2024 it started business with the United States and Canada, and confirmed the opening of Mexico, where it only remains to approve the health certificates to begin exports. In addition, through the Mercosur free trade ...