Hides and Skins: Net sales of 404,000 pieces for 2015 were up 35 percent from the previous week and 7 percent from the prior 4-week average. Whole cattle hide sales of 402,600 pieces were primarily for China (209,700 pieces), South Korea (134,800 pieces), Mexico (24,900 pieces), Taiwan (14,700 pieces), and Italy (10,100 pieces). Exports of 363,200 pieces, all whole cattle hides, were down 10 percent from the previous week and 5 percent from the prior 4-week average. The primary destinations were to China (207,900 pieces), South Korea (97,200 pieces), Mexico (26,700 pieces), Taiwan (13,100 pieces), and Thailand (8,100 pieces).
Net sales of 60,100 wet blues for 2015 were down 55 percent from the previous week and 45 percent from the prior 4-week average. Increases were reported for China (31,100 grain splits and 4,700 unsplit), the Dominican Republic (19,200 unsplit), and Taiwan (4,800 unsplit). Decreases were reported for Thailand (2,700 unsplit), Mexico (700 grain splits), Italy (400 grain splits and 100 unsplit), and Japan (200 grain splits and 100 unsplit). Net sales reductions of 4,800 wet blues for 2016 were for Taiwan. Exports of 141,400 wet blues were primarily to Italy (55,200 unsplit and 5,000 grain splits), China (18,400 unsplit and 13,700 grain splits), South Korea (12,300 unsplit and 3,100 grain splits), and Mexico (14,300 grain splits). Net sales reductions of splits totaling 211,200 pounds for 2015 resulted as increases for Taiwan (97,800 pounds), were more than offset by decreases for South Korea (288,500 pounds) and China (20,500 pounds). Net sales reductions of splits totaling 10,800 pounds for 2016 were for Italy. Exports of 203,000 pounds were reported to China (128,100 pounds) and South Korea (75,000 pounds).
| WEEKLY NET
SALES ACTIVITY COUNTRY |
WHOLE | WET BLUES | |||||
|
CATTLE |
CALF |
KIP |
CROUPONS |
UNSPLIT |
GRAIN |
DROP SPLITS 1608 |
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| THOUSAND UNITS | |||||||
| GERMANY | 2.0 | ||||||
| ITALY | 10.1 | –0.1 | –0.4 | ||||
| JAPAN | 2.0 | –0.1 | –0.2 | ||||
| TAIWAN | 14.7 | 4.8 | 97.8 | ||||
| CHINA | 209.7 | 1.4 | 4.7 | 31.1 | –20.5 | ||
| KOR REP | 134.8 | 0.2 | –0.1 | –288.5 | |||
| THAILND | 2.4 | –2.7 | |||||
| VIETNAM | 4.0 | 2.4 | |||||
| DOM REP | 19.2 | ||||||
| MEXICO | 24.9 | –0.7 | |||||
| NET SALES | 402.6 | 0.0 | 1.4 | 0.0 | 28.5 | 31.7 | –211.2 |
| WEEKLY EXPORTS | 363.2 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 100.4 | 41.0 | 203.0 |
| ACCUM. EXPORTS | 8,158.8 | 10.2 | 101.2 | 0.0 | 2,349.5 | 828.1 | 16,820.6 |
| OUTSTANDING SALES | 2,998.1 | 2.1 | 38.8 | 0.0 | 324.9 | 361.3 | 13,304.5 |
