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Who buys Uruguay’s beef? Export destinations 2024

In 2024, Uruguay exported $2 billion of beef (352 thousand tonnes), 3% of the world total. Its main destinations were China (31%), the United States (28%) and the Netherlands (8%). Uruguay was the world’s 11th-largest exporter of beef.

Summary

Value
$2billion
Tonnes
352thousand tonnes
Share of world total
3%
World rank
11th
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
China627Tonnes: 150,846USD per tonne: $4,15730.8%Sea
United States577Tonnes: 95,372USD per tonne: $6,04828.3%Sea
Netherlands re-exports161Tonnes: 17,757USD per tonne: $9,0507.9%Sea
Israel147Tonnes: 15,852USD per tonne: $9,2487.2%Sea
Brazil70.8Tonnes: 6,965USD per tonne: $10,1663.5%Land
Italy58.2Tonnes: 7,891USD per tonne: $7,3752.9%Sea
Germany46.8Tonnes: 3,767USD per tonne: $12,4152.3%Sea
Canada44.1Tonnes: 8,741USD per tonne: $5,0482.2%Sea
Japan37.9Tonnes: 6,602USD per tonne: $5,7371.9%Sea
United Kingdom32.8Tonnes: 3,523USD per tonne: $9,3111.6%Sea
Spain32.6Tonnes: 3,309USD per tonne: $9,8431.6%Sea
Switzerland26.5Tonnes: 1,777USD per tonne: $14,9371.3%Sea
Chile25.9Tonnes: 3,621USD per tonne: $7,1501.3%Sea
Russia25.1Tonnes: 8,556USD per tonne: $2,9291.2%Sea
Trinidad and Tobago18.8Tonnes: 3,999USD per tonne: $4,7120.93%Sea
Portugal16.6Tonnes: 1,863USD per tonne: $8,9070.81%Sea
Denmark9.2Tonnes: 667USD per tonne: $13,7670.45%Sea
French Polynesia8.4Tonnes: 1,307USD per tonne: $6,4340.41%Sea
Austria8Tonnes: 411USD per tonne: $19,4820.39%Sea
Norway6.9Tonnes: 529USD per tonne: $13,0520.34%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 0.63
  • United States 0.58
  • Netherlands 0.16
  • Israel 0.15
  • Brazil 0.07

Source: CEPII BACI

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Partner19952024
China00.63
United States< 0.010.58
Netherlands0.010.16
Israel0.040.15
Brazil0.040.07

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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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