# Meat and edible meat offal (HS2 02) Sector Trade Overview | Yugalinks

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Meat and edible meat offal at HS2 02, with reported global trade through 2024.

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## Answer

The meat and edible meat offal sector recorded $167.0B in reported global trade in 2024, with -4.4% annual change.

## Key figures

| Measure | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Latest reported trade | $167.0B |
| Latest annual change | -4.4% |
| Active exporters | 181 |
| Active importers | 200 |
| Active HS6 products | 66 |

## Annual trend

| Year | Global trade | Corridors | HS6 products |
| --- | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| 1995 | $37.3B | 3,561 | 65 |
| 1996 | $37.6B | 3,561 | 65 |
| 1997 | $36.7B | 3,636 | 65 |
| 1998 | $34.2B | 3,672 | 65 |
| 1999 | $37.6B | 3,973 | 65 |
| 2000 | $39.0B | 4,290 | 65 |
| 2001 | $40.6B | 4,280 | 65 |
| 2002 | $41.2B | 4,269 | 66 |
| 2003 | $47.8B | 4,439 | 66 |
| 2004 | $55.5B | 4,690 | 66 |
| 2005 | $62.7B | 4,667 | 66 |
| 2006 | $66.6B | 4,663 | 66 |
| 2007 | $77.4B | 4,780 | 66 |
| 2008 | $95.7B | 5,169 | 66 |
| 2009 | $86.0B | 5,095 | 66 |
| 2010 | $93.7B | 5,199 | 66 |
| 2011 | $112.6B | 5,257 | 66 |
| 2012 | $113.0B | 5,414 | 66 |
| 2013 | $118.6B | 5,470 | 66 |
| 2014 | $125.6B | 5,815 | 66 |
| 2015 | $110.3B | 5,920 | 66 |
| 2016 | $109.5B | 5,920 | 66 |
| 2017 | $118.2B | 5,928 | 66 |
| 2018 | $123.7B | 5,990 | 66 |
| 2019 | $131.5B | 6,105 | 66 |
| 2020 | $132.8B | 6,058 | 66 |
| 2021 | $150.2B | 5,975 | 66 |
| 2022 | $162.2B | 5,997 | 66 |
| 2023 | $159.7B | 6,019 | 66 |
| 2024 | $167.0B | 5,956 | 66 |

## Growth and market structure

- Trend: Growing
- Three-year CAGR: +3.6%
- Five-year CAGR: +4.9%
- Historical peak: $167.0B in 2,024
- Positive-growth years: 82.8%
- Exporter concentration HHI: 2,128.9
- Importer concentration HHI: 1,581
- Trade volatility coefficient: 0.5

## Leading corridors

| Rank | Exporter | Importer | Trade value | Growth | HS6 products | Distance | FTA |
| ---: | --- | --- | ---: | ---: | ---: | ---: | --- |
| 1 | Brazil | China | $7.7B | +4.4% | 42 | 18,570 km | No |
| 2 | USA, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands | Mexico | $5.5B | +9.8% | 55 | 3,359 km | Yes |
| 3 | Australia | USA, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands | $4.0B | +20.9% | 22 | 16,672 km | Yes |
| 4 | Canada | USA, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands | $4.0B | +1.2% | 42 | 556 km | Yes |
| 5 | USA, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands | Japan | $2.9B | -7.1% | 37 | 10,872 km | No |
| 6 | USA, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands | Republic of Korea | $2.9B | +1.7% | 31 | 11,077 km | Yes |
| 7 | USA, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands | China | $2.6B | -12.5% | 28 | 11,883 km | No |
| 8 | Netherlands | Germany | $2.2B | +4.7% | 60 | 579 km | Yes |
| 9 | Mexico | USA, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands | $2.1B | -0.4% | 28 | 3,359 km | Yes |
| 10 | Australia | China | $2.1B | +1.1% | 19 | 8,024 km | Yes |

## Leading exporters

| Rank | Country | Exports | Partners | HS6 products |
| ---: | --- | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| 1 | Brazil | $24.0B | 175 | 60 |
| 2 | USA, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands | $22.6B | 174 | 66 |
| 3 | Australia | $13.5B | 135 | 62 |
| 4 | Netherlands | $11.0B | 153 | 66 |
| 5 | Spain | $10.5B | 149 | 66 |
| 6 | Poland | $8.5B | 127 | 66 |
| 7 | Germany | $8.1B | 121 | 66 |
| 8 | Canada | $7.5B | 115 | 64 |
| 9 | New Zealand | $5.1B | 115 | 60 |
| 10 | Ireland | $4.2B | 102 | 63 |

## Leading importers

| Rank | Country | Imports | Partners | HS6 products |
| ---: | --- | ---: | ---: | ---: |
| 1 | China | $21.3B | 70 | 65 |
| 2 | USA, Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands | $15.0B | 68 | 66 |
| 3 | Japan | $10.2B | 46 | 64 |
| 4 | Germany | $8.7B | 78 | 66 |
| 5 | Mexico | $7.5B | 23 | 60 |
| 6 | France | $7.1B | 83 | 65 |
| 7 | Italy | $6.8B | 60 | 66 |
| 8 | United Kingdom | $6.5B | 63 | 65 |
| 9 | Republic of Korea | $6.5B | 42 | 58 |
| 10 | Netherlands | $5.5B | 64 | 66 |

## HS6 products

- Meat: of bovine animals, carcasses and half-carcasses, fresh or chilled (HS6 020110)
- Meat: of bovine animals, cuts with bone in (excluding carcasses and half-carcasses), fresh or chilled (HS6 020120)
- Meat: of bovine animals, boneless cuts, fresh or chilled (HS6 020130)
- Meat: of bovine animals, carcasses and half-carcasses, frozen (HS6 020210)
- Meat: of bovine animals, cuts with bone in (excluding carcasses and half-carcasses), frozen (HS6 020220)
- Meat: of bovine animals, boneless cuts, frozen (HS6 020230)
- Meat: of swine, carcasses and half-carcasses, fresh or chilled (HS6 020311)
- Meat: of swine, hams, shoulders and cuts thereof, with bone in, fresh or chilled (HS6 020312)
- Meat: of swine, n.e.s. in item no. 0203.1, fresh or chilled (HS6 020319)
- Meat: of swine, carcasses and half-carcasses, frozen (HS6 020321)
- Meat: of swine, hams, shoulders and cuts thereof, with bone in, frozen (HS6 020322)
- Meat: of swine, n.e.s. in item no. 0203.2, frozen (HS6 020329)
- Meat: of sheep, lamb carcasses and half-carcasses, fresh or chilled (HS6 020410)
- Meat: of sheep, carcasses and half-carcasses (excluding carcasses and half-carcasses of lamb), fresh or chilled (HS6 020421)
- Meat: of sheep (including lamb), cuts with bone in (excluding carcasses and half-carcasses), fresh or chilled (HS6 020422)
- Meat: of sheep (including lamb), boneless cuts, fresh or chilled (HS6 020423)
- Meat: of sheep, lamb carcasses and half-carcasses, frozen (HS6 020430)
- Meat: of sheep, carcasses and half-carcasses (excluding carcasses and half-carcasses of lamb), frozen (HS6 020441)
- Meat: of sheep (including lamb), cuts with bone in (excluding carcasses and half-carcasses), frozen (HS6 020442)
- Meat: of sheep (including lamb), boneless cuts, frozen (HS6 020443)
- Meat: of goats, fresh, chilled or frozen (HS6 020450)
- Meat: of horses, asses, mules or hinnies, fresh, chilled or frozen (HS6 020500)
- Offal, edible: of bovine animals, fresh or chilled (HS6 020610)
- Offal, edible: of bovine animals, tongues, frozen (HS6 020621)
- Offal, edible: of bovine animals, livers, frozen (HS6 020622)
- Offal, edible: of bovine animals, (other than tongues and livers), frozen (HS6 020629)
- Offal, edible: of swine, fresh or chilled (HS6 020630)
- Offal, edible: of swine, livers, frozen (HS6 020641)
- Offal, edible: of swine, (other than livers), frozen (HS6 020649)
- Offal, edible: of sheep, goats, horses, asses, mules or hinnies, fresh or chilled (HS6 020680)
- Offal, edible: of sheep, goats, horses, asses, mules or hinnies, frozen (HS6 020690)
- Meat and edible offal: poultry, not cut in pieces, fresh or chilled (HS6 020710)
- Meat and edible offal: of the poultry of heading no. 0105, of fowls of the species gallus domesticus, (not cut in pieces), fresh or chilled (HS6 020711)
- Meat and edible offal: of fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, not cut in pieces, frozen (HS6 020712)
- Meat and edible offal: of the poultry of heading no. 0105, of fowls of the species gallus domesticus, cuts and offal, fresh or chilled (HS6 020713)
- Meat and edible offal: of fowls of the species Gallus domesticus, cuts and offal, frozen (HS6 020714)
- Meat and edible offal: fowls of the species gallus domesticus, not cut in pieces, frozen (HS6 020721)
- Meat and edible offal: turkeys, not cut in pieces, frozen (HS6 020722)
- Meat and edible offal: ducks, geese and guinea fowls, not cut in pieces, frozen (HS6 020723)
- Meat and edible offal: of turkeys, not cut in pieces, fresh or chilled (HS6 020724)
- Meat and edible offal: of turkeys, not cut in pieces, frozen (HS6 020725)
- Meat and edible offal: of the poultry of heading no. 0105, of turkeys, cuts and offal, fresh or chilled (HS6 020726)
- Meat and edible offal: of the poultry of heading no. 0105, of turkeys, cuts and offal, frozen (HS6 020727)
- Offal, edible: of geese or ducks, fatty livers, fresh or chilled (HS6 020731)
- Meat and edible offal: of the poultry of heading no. 0105, of ducks, geese or guinea fowls, (not cut in pieces), fresh or chilled (HS6 020732)
- Meat and edible offal: of the poultry of heading no. 0105, of ducks, geese or guinea fowls, (not cut in pieces), frozen (HS6 020733)
- Meat and edible offal: of the poultry of heading no. 0105, of ducks, geese or guinea fowls, fatty livers, fresh or chilled (foie gras from ducks or geese only) (HS6 020734)
- Meat and edible offal: of the poultry of heading no. 0105, of ducks, geese or guinea fowls, fresh or chilled, poultry cuts or offal (excluding fatty livers) (HS6 020735)
- Meat and edible offal: of the poultry of heading no. 0105, of ducks, geese or guinea fowls, frozen (HS6 020736)
- Meat and edible offal: poultry cuts and offal (including livers but excluding the fatty livers of geese or ducks), fresh or chilled (HS6 020739)
- Meat and edible offal: of ducks, not cut in pieces, fresh or chilled (HS6 020741)
- Meat and edible offal: of ducks, not cut in pieces, frozen (HS6 020742)
- Meat and edible offal: of ducks, fatty livers (foie gras), fresh or chilled (HS6 020743)
- Meat and edible offal: of ducks, cuts and offal, excluding fatty livers, fresh or chilled (HS6 020744)
- Meat and edible offal: of ducks, cuts and offal, excluding fatty livers, frozen (HS6 020745)
- Offal, edible: of poultry, livers, frozen (HS6 020750)
- Meat and edible offal: of geese, not cut in pieces, fresh or chilled (HS6 020751)
- Meat and edible offal: of geese, not cut in pieces, frozen (HS6 020752)
- Meat and edible offal: of geese, fatty livers (foie gras), fresh or chilled (HS6 020753)
- Meat and edible offal: of geese, cuts and offal, excluding fatty livers, fresh or chilled (HS6 020754)
- Meat and edible offal: of geese, cuts and offal, excluding fatty livers, frozen (HS6 020755)
- Meat and edible offal: of guinea fowls, fresh, chilled or frozen (HS6 020760)
- Meat and edible meat offal: of rabbits or hares, fresh, chilled or frozen (HS6 020810)
- Meat and edible meat offal: frogs\' legs, fresh, chilled or frozen (HS6 020820)
- Meat and edible meat offal: of primates, fresh, chilled or frozen (HS6 020830)
- Meat and edible meat offal: of whales, dolphins and porpoises (mammals of the order Cetacea): of manatees and dugongs (mammals of the order Sirenia): of seals, sea lions and walruses (mammals of the suborder Pinnipedia), fresh, chilled or frozen (HS6 020840)
- Meat and edible meat offal: of reptiles (including snakes and turtles), fresh, chilled or frozen (HS6 020850)
- Meat and edible meat offal: of camels and other camelids (Camelidae), fresh, chilled or frozen (HS6 020860)
- Meat and edible meat offal: n.e.s. in chapter 2, fresh, chilled or frozen (HS6 020890)
- Fat: pig fat, free of lean meat, and poultry fat, (not rendered or otherwise extracted), fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked (HS6 020900)
- Fat: pig fat, free of lean meat, not rendered or otherwise extracted, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked (HS6 020910)
- Fat: poultry fat, not rendered or otherwise extracted, fresh, chilled, frozen, salted, in brine, dried or smoked (HS6 020990)
- Meat, preserved: of swine, hams, shoulders and cuts thereof, with bone in, salted, in brine, dried or smoked (HS6 021011)
- Meat, preserved: of swine, bellies (streaky) and cuts thereof, salted, in brine, dried or smoked (HS6 021012)
- Meat, preserved: of swine, salted, in brine, dried or smoked, n.e.c. in item no. 0210.1 (HS6 021019)
- Meat: salted, in brine, dried or smoked, of bovine animals (HS6 021020)
- Meat and edible meat offal, preserved: salted, in brine, dried or smoked, and edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal, n.e.s. in heading no. 0210 (HS6 021090)
- Meat and edible meat offal: salted, in brine, dried or smoked, and edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal, of primates (HS6 021091)
- Meat and edible meat offal: salted, in brine, dried or smoked: edible flours, meals of meat or meat offal, of whales, dolphins, porpoises (of order Cetacea): manatees, dugongs (of order Sirenia): seals, sea lions, and walruses (of suborder Pinnipedia) (HS6 021092)
- Meat and edible meat offal: salted, in brine, dried or smoked, and edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal, of reptiles (including snakes and turtles) (HS6 021093)
- Meat and edible meat offal: salted, in brine, dried or smoked, and edible flours and meals of meat or meat offal, other than of primates, whales, dolphins, porpoises, manatees, dugongs, seals, sea lions, walruses, reptiles (including snakes and turtles) (HS6 021099)

## Definitions and coverage

Merchandise trade observations aggregated to HS2. Growth, concentration, volatility, and peak comparisons calculated from reported observations. Missing values remain unavailable and are not imputed.

Reported observations cover 1995-2024. The data release was refreshed 2026-07-20 09:34:08.

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