According to data from the General Administration of Customs of China, the country imported 530,000 tonnes of pork in the first half of 2025. This means that shipments declined by 140,000 tonnes this year.
Combined imports of pork and pork offal totalled 980,000 tonnes between January and June 2026, down 14.8% year on year. In the first half of 2025, China imported 1.15 million tonnes of these products.
The overall decline was driven primarily by lower pork purchases. By contrast, imports of pork offal proved considerably more resilient, reaching 590,000 tonnes, only 4.8% below the previous year’s level.
Monthly pork import volumes remained subdued throughout the first half of the year, ranging between 50,000 and 70,000 tonnes. This was significantly below the levels recorded a year earlier.
The current trend confirms a further contraction in China’s demand for imported pork following the record import volumes seen in 2020 and 2021. By comparison, the country imported more than 2.3 million tonnes of pork in the first half of 2021. This year’s figure therefore represents less than one-fifth of that volume.
At the same time, imports of pork offal have remained relatively stable in recent years, indicating more resilient demand for this product category.
Overall, the first-half data point to a further weakening of Chinese demand for imported pork, while the pork offal segment recorded a much smaller decline.
PigUA.info, based on materials from 3tres3.com