In particular, an increase in Fresh Cheese trend was reported: +20.4% in quantity and +16.2% in value, thanks to significant growth in South Korea (+103%), but also in Japan, United States, China and United Arab Emirates.

Thanks to the particularly competitive prices of Skimmed Milk Powder (SMP), EU exports increased by 40.9% y-o-y in quantity and 22.7% in value. Algeria remains the first destination market, with a share of 15% of total EU exports, but the focus is the recovery of imports from South-East Asia: China, Indonesia, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia.

Milk and Cream exports (respectively +15.9% in quantity and +14% in value) recover, with China accounting for 43% of the market share. Behind China, the increment is driven by the import of three African countries: Angola, Libya and Mauritania.

Positive scenarios also for specialized productions such as Whey and Lactose powder for pharmaceutical use, the latter even growing by 47.6% in quantity and 25.9% in value.

The October boom, however, is not enough to reverse the current year trend of dairy products exports from the European Union. The January-October 2018 is indeed negative compared to the same period of the previous year both in terms of quantity (-0.3%) and in value (-3.5%), even if the stable export in Milk Equivalent (ME) suggests not to be excessively pessimistic.

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