U.S. EXPORT SALES FOR WEEK ENDING 1/3/2019

Hides and Skins: Net sales of hides for 2019 totaled 162,900 pieces, all whole cattle hides were primarily for China (131,400 pieces, including decreases of 100 pieces), Brazil (12,400 pieces), South Korea (7,900 pieces, including decreases of 200 pieces), and Mexico (7,200 pieces, including decreases of 100 pieces).  Outstanding sales of whole cattle hides totaled 2,116,800 pieces on December 31^st and were carried over to 2019.  For 2019, hide exports of 63,100 pieces, all whole cattle hides, were to China (44,400 pieces), South Korea (11,300 pieces), Brazil (4,100 pieces), and Mexico (3,400 pieces). Accumulated exports of hides in 2018 totaled, 21,457,300 pieces, up less than 1 percent from the prior year’s total of 21,390,700 pieces.

 Net sales of 3,500 wet blues for 2019 were reported.  Increases were reported for Italy (1,500 unsplit), Japan (1,300 unsplit), and Indonesia (800 grain splits).  Reductions were reported for Taiwan (100 unsplit) and China (100 unsplit).  Outstanding sales of 388,600 were remaining on December 31^st and carried over to 2019.  Exports of 32,100 wet blues were primarily to Taiwan (12,700 unsplit), China (7,100 unsplit), Italy (5,600 unsplit), and Thailand (5,000 unsplit). Accumulated exports in 2018 totaled 6,976,900 wet blues, up 1 percent from the prior year’s total of 6,927,100 wet blues. No net sales of splits for 2019 were reported.  Outstanding sales of splits totaled 2,810,000 pounds on December 31^st were carried over to 2019.  Exports of 120,000 pounds were to Vietnam.  Accumulated exports of splits in 2019 totaled 25,103,100 pounds, up 49 percent from the 16,805,400 pounds exported in 2018.

U.S. EXPORT SALES FOR WEEK ENDING  12/31/2018