Economy & Business - September 2003

Ranchers claim that there are decent prospects for increasing offal exports. Mexico and El Salvador both import over US$1m worth a year of Nicaraguan offal. The great prospect for the market is Japan, which imported US$403,000 worth of offal in 2001. Nicaragua has been exporting offal to Japan since 1975: it only started exporting offal to Mexico in 1999, following the clinching of the FTA with Mexico.