Question 2: Across the 43 ASFV-positive countries, where do most of the soy-based products come from?
The next step was to identify the country of origin and the volume of soy-based products that entered the US. The analysis indicated that in 2018 the US imported a total of 104,707 metric tons (MT) of the eight previously identified commodities from eight of the 43 countries on the CFIA watch list: China, Ukraine, Russia, Uganda, Belgium, Togo, Vietnam, and Thailand (Table 2). Of this total volume, 55,101 MT (52.6%) of these designated soy-based ingredients were imported from China. Ukraine was the second largest exporter of soy-based products into the US with 44,776 MT (42.8%) (Table 2). In contrast, during 2019 the United States imported a total of 73,331 metric tons (MT) of soy-based products with 40,143 MT (54.7%) imported from the Ukraine and 6182 M (6.8%) from China.