China increases its imports of butter and milk powders, cheese slowed down

China Dairy Import
+15.3%in volume
+24.2%in value
Jan-Mar 2018

Chinese dairy import kept growing fast in the first quarter of 2018: +15.3% in quantity and +24.2% in value y-o-y. Import is over 758,000 tons of milk and derivatives, for a total value of 2.58 billion dollars.

There is still much room for growth, it is evident: the key is to spread the culture of consuming dairy products.

The growth in imports is widespread among the products. Nevertheless, cream had a slowdown (-3.2% in quantity) and also cheese imports decreased by 5% in volume, while it grew by 3.6% in value.

China is confirmed as a good importer of WMP (+9.9% in quantity and +21.6% in value), packed milk (+36.3% in quantity and +60.1% in value) and whey powder (+11.5% in quantity, but -2.2% in value).

Butter had a positive acceleration, too: its imports rose by 29.9% in quantity and by 82.9% in value.

New Zealand is still a privileged partner of China, especially for WMP, whose export increased by 12% in the first quarter of 2018, y-o-y. New Zealand accounts for 96% of WMP export to China, leaving the remainder to Australia, France, the U.S. and the Netherlands.

The Netherlands increased its export share, too, and confirmed its leadership in infant milk formula export to China with a 40% market share. Also its milk and cream export and WMP export increased, respectively by +74% and +27%.

CHINA: dairy products Import year-to-date (March)
  QUANTITY (Tons) VALUE (’000 USD)
2017 2018 ± on 2017 2017 2018 ± on 2017
Infant milk formula 54.078 63.126 +16,7% 732.054 931.221 +27,2%
WMP 196.106 215.525 +9,9% 593.531 721.838 +21,6%
Milk and cream 121.310 156.388 +28,9% 137.254 197.175 +43,7%
of which:    
- Bulk and pack. milk 98.531 134.328 +36,3% 74.745 119.694 +60,1%
- Cream 22.779 22.060 -3,2% 62.510 77.481 +23,9%
Butter 24.011 31.180 +29,9% 107.694 196.997 +82,9%
SMP 74.343 82.480 +10,9% 179.825 179.440 -0,2%
Whey Powder 122.719 136.777 +11,5% 148.240 144.968 -2,2%
Cheese 28.132 26.721 -5,0% 122.760 127.204 +3,6%
Caseinates 2.492 5.517 +121,4% 19.276 41.995 +117,9%
Lactose Pharmaceutical 20.403 22.536 +10,5% 18.702 16.370 -12,5%
Yogurt and buttermilk 6.018 8.199 +36,2% 11.706 16.280 +39,1%
Condensed Milk 5.184 5.842 +12,7% 9.381 10.860 +15,8%
Lactose edible 3.376 4.293 +27,2% 5.468 5.558 +1,6%
TOTAL IMPORT 658.172 758.586 +15,3% 2.085.891 2.589.906 +24,2%
Data processed by Clal based on GTIS source.

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