World: The latest figures for malt exports by countries
Canada’s malt exports have fluctuated between 500,000 and 550,000 tons since the year 2000, they may increase by 50,000 tons during this crop year, but are limited by available capacity.
The USA will export 150,000 tons to Mexico and the Dominican Republic, of which 100,000 tons will be produced in Modelo’s malthouse in Idaho.
In the Mercosur countries Argentina and Uruguay each ship about 220,000 tons of malt to Brazil. New capacities of Cargill and Quilmes will increase the Argentinian capacities by a total of 220,000 tons, so that the Brazilian import demand of about 700,000 tons can be filled completely by their neighbour countries.
Russia has become a malt exporter to the Ukraine and all the countries in the South, which were part of the Soviet Union. Annual exports may reach 100,000 tons. Also China entered the world market, selling malt to Russia, Taiwan and Southeast Asia, we registered sales of almost 100,000 tons.
Therefore the total of new international sales may be as much as 470,000 tons. However, we must also look at the larger beer output, probably 4 % in 2006 and again 3 % in 2007 = 1.710 Billion hl. If we deduct self-sufficient China from this figure, we arrive at beer sales of 1.360 vs. 1.292 in 2005 billion hl, a plus of 5.3 %.
An output plus of 68 million hl requires 750 – 800,000 tons more malt. By comparison, the new malt supplies in the world do not appear so impressive any more.
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