According to a statement by Ricardo Santin, President of the Brazil Association for Animal Protein (ABPA), the Nation will produce 14.750 million metric tons (29,500 million pounds) of RTC broiler product in 2023. It is anticipated that exports will attain 5.2 million metric tons (11,440 million pounds), representing 35.3 percent of production. In contrast, the U.S.D.A projects U.S. production of broiler RTC to attain 21.329 million metric tons (46,925 million pounds) and will export 15.7 percent of product, predominantly in the form of leg quarters.
Ricardo Santin predicts that broiler products would average $1,560 per metric ton through 2023. For the first ten months of 2022, the U.S. exported 3.16 million metric tons with an average unit value of $1,399 per ton. Direct comparisons in unit value of exports from Brazil and the U.S. are invalid, given the wide diversity in product offered by Brazil including whole chicken and specialized products including NAE and Halal presentations.
The ABPA maintains that freedom from HPAI will represent a marketing advantage for Brazil. This claim might be premature, given the emergence of H5N1 strain highly pathogenic avian influenza in Peru, Chile and Ecuador. This should restrain the ABPA from claims that are justified at the present but may not be valid in the future.