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Who buys New Zealand’s sheep and goat meat? Export destinations 2024

In 2024, New Zealand exported $2.2 billion of sheep and goat meat (377 thousand tonnes), 24.4% of the world total. Its main destinations were China (26%), the United States (18%) and the United Kingdom (11%). New Zealand was the world’s 2nd-largest exporter of sheep and goat meat.

Summary

Value
$2.2billion
Tonnes
377thousand tonnes
Share of world total
24.4%
World rank
2nd
Routes to the main destinations. Width: value; color: estimated transport mode.SeaAirLand

Destinations

The 20 main destinations in the latest year.

PartnerValue (USD millions)TonnesUSD per tonneShareMode
China565Tonnes: 167,749USD per tonne: $3,36625.6%Sea
United States392Tonnes: 35,460USD per tonne: $11,04317.8%Sea
United Kingdom237Tonnes: 41,277USD per tonne: $5,74110.7%Sea
Netherlands re-exports181Tonnes: 19,125USD per tonne: $9,4568.2%Sea
Germany167Tonnes: 13,928USD per tonne: $11,9797.6%Sea
France94Tonnes: 11,030USD per tonne: $8,5264.3%Sea
Canada84.6Tonnes: 13,141USD per tonne: $6,4393.8%Sea
Taiwan43.6Tonnes: 8,919USD per tonne: $4,8922%Sea
Japan41.3Tonnes: 5,277USD per tonne: $7,8261.9%Sea
Belgium re-exports39.9Tonnes: 6,241USD per tonne: $6,3921.8%Sea
Saudi Arabia35Tonnes: 7,131USD per tonne: $4,9101.6%Sea
Switzerland30.3Tonnes: 1,868USD per tonne: $16,2101.4%Sea
Malaysia28.1Tonnes: 6,040USD per tonne: $4,6521.3%Sea
Jordan24.5Tonnes: 5,455USD per tonne: $4,5001.1%Sea
Sweden24Tonnes: 3,657USD per tonne: $6,5631.1%Sea
Fiji22.7Tonnes: 5,017USD per tonne: $4,5221%Sea
Greece19.5Tonnes: 2,626USD per tonne: $7,4190.88%Sea
Hong Kong re-exports17.1Tonnes: 1,362USD per tonne: $12,5760.78%Sea
South Korea8.9Tonnes: 632USD per tonne: $14,1420.41%Sea
Ireland8.6Tonnes: 1,739USD per tonne: $4,9700.39%Sea

Trend

Who it sells to

China has been its main destination since 2013

Value in USD billions. The five largest destinations in 2024.

  • China 0.56
  • United States 0.39
  • United Kingdom 0.24
  • Netherlands 0.18
  • Germany 0.17

Source: CEPII BACI

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Partner19952024
China< 0.010.56
United States0.040.39
United Kingdom0.280.24
Netherlands0.010.18
Germany0.110.17

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Methodology

Goods trade from CEPII BACI (BACI_HS92_V202601), which reconciles what exporters and importers report: countries that stopped reporting (Russia since 2022) appear with their partners’ data. FOB values in current US dollars; tonnes when BACI reports them. The price per tonne is the value of the rows with a weight divided by that weight. The transport mode is our own estimate based on value per kilo and geography. Data up to 2024.

Hong Kong, Singapore, the Netherlands and Belgium re-export goods from other countries: their figures include transit.

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