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​​Thank you to Miguel and Roberto for raising these issues regarding sources of bovine meat prices within the FAO Food Price Index.  While trade data is available for both chilled and frozen bovine meat for the countries used to compile this section of the Index (Australia, Brazil and the United States), only average export prices for frozen meat are used.  I was not involved in the orginal selection of data sources for the Index; however, I imagine this was done to ensure comparability between sources and to reflect that fact that most bovine meat is exported frozen.



Comments and suggestions are always welcome!



Michael



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Dear List Members,

We have received the following two queries concerning the Meat Price Index, tomorrow we’ll send out a reply, in case you would have any other comments do not hesitate to send your message to the List.
Many thanks.

1.
In the bovine meat price index, Brazil reports frozen and chilled beef while USA is only frozen.
Is there a way to compare fresh to fresh and frozen to frozen?

Regards.

Miguel Achaval


2.
Dear Emanuele, thanks for the updated tables. Why does the beef meat index only consider frozen  beef and ignores all trade of chilled beef that is important for many countries, including US chilled exports which are quite significant in quantity (43% in 2016) and are even larger than frozen in value.
Best regards,
Roberto


Kind regards,

Emanuele

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