Morocco imports 246,297 live cattle from Brazil in ten months
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Le Matin
Illustrative image · Halil İbrahim Özcan · Pexels · Licence PexelsMorocco imported 246,297 head of live cattle from Brazil in the first ten months of 2026, compared with 137,300 a year earlier, an increase of 79.4%, for $373.29 million. The Kingdom became Brazil’s second-largest market for live cattle, while the government suspended import duties within a quota of 300,000 head, according to trade data reviewed by Le Matin.
Brazilian exporters shipped 246,297 live cattle to Morocco during the first ten months of 2026, compared with 137,300 over the same period in 2025, an increase of 79.4%, Le Matin reports. These sales generated $373.29 million, compared with about $167.7 million a year earlier, an increase of 122.6%.
By the end of October, the volume shipped was 39.6% higher than the total of 176,483 cattle exported to Morocco over the whole of 2025, while the value of sales was 74.8% higher than the $213.54 million recorded last year, according to Le Matin. Shipments notably reached 42,481 head in June, 37,495 in August and 37,541 in October.
October alone recorded a year-on-year increase of 444.3%, with 37,541 cattle shipped compared with 6,897 in October 2025, according to Le Matin. Morocco had set an annual tariff quota of 300,000 head of cattle for slaughter in 2026, as part of the suspension of import duties.
