US pork is enjoying a good year in the export market. In April the meat set a new one-month record with 175,640 tonnes of pork and pork variety meat exported, with a value of $391.5 million. This beat the previous record of 156,959 tonnes, set in February this year, by 12%.

For the first four months of 2008 total pork exports are up 52% cpmpared to last year. The total for the year so far stands at 629,682 tonnes, with a value of $1.4 billion.

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