date:May 14, 2012
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Year-over-year exports to Korea were lower in the first quarter of 2012 down 27 percent in volume (53,590 metric tons) and 12 percent in value ($154 million), USMEF said. In 2011, exports to South Korea surged in the early months of 2011 on culling of the domestic swine herd due to foot-and-mouth disease and a temporary duty-free tariff rate quota for some cuts of imported pork.
However, the totals for 2012 are still more than double the volume and triple the value recorded in the first qu