Overview

International dairy trade is primarily in butter, cheese and dry milk powders, with some trade in fluid milk products, ice cream, yogurt and dry whey products (ERS).

The United States produced 87,450 metric tons (MT), of milk in 2010, more than any other individual country. Other major producers of milk in 2010 included the 27 countries of the European Union (EU), which produced 134,200 MT; India, which produced 50,300 MT; Russia, which produced 31,740 MT; Brazil, which produced 29,948 MT; and China, which produced 29,100 MT. 

U.S. dairy product exports were valued at $3.71 billion, the second highest on record. Dairy export volume totaled 1.6 million MT in 2010. The United States imported 594,687 MT of dairy products in 2010, valued at $2.17 billion. June 2011 ... International Dairy Markets

Marketing

• Canadian Dairy Information Centre
• Commonwealth of Independent States (including Russia).
• Dairy Council, United Kingdom.
• Danish Dairy Board
• Dairy Good, Australia.
• Dairy: Trade, Economic Research Service (ERS), USDA.
• Dairy: World Markets and Trade, Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), USDA, 2010.
• Dairy Market Statistics, 2009 Annual Summary, Ag Marketing Service (AMS), USDA, 2010.
• European Commission - Agriculture
• European Dairy Association
• Fonterra Co-operative Group, New Zealand.
• Foreign Trade Statistics, U.S. Census Bureau.
• Global Ag Trade System (GATS), FAS, USDA.
• International Dairy•Deli•Bakery Association
• International Dairy Federation
• International Dairy Foods Association
• International Dairy Programs, AMS, USDA.
• Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Japan.
• Supply and Demand for Commodity Components: Implications of Free Trade versus the AUSFTA for the U.S. Dairy Industry, University of California Agricultural Issues Center, 2006 - This paper presents a simulation model of world dairy markets and analyzes the effects on U.S. milk markets of both a hypothetical agreement allowing free bilateral trade in dairy products and the actual Australian-US Free Trade Agreement.
• U.S. Agricultural Trade, ERS, USDA.
• U.S. Dairy Export Council

Production

• American Dairy Products Institute
• Dairy Products Annual Summary, National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), USDA, 2010.
• Milk Production, Disposition, and Income Annual Summary, NASS, USDA, 2010.

 Businesses/Case Studies

• Trade Liberalization in International Dairy Markets: Estimated Impacts, ERS, USDA, 2006 - Based on economic modeling, liberalization would reduce world dairy product supplies and increase the value of dairy trade.
• U.S. Dairy Trade: Situation and Outlook, 2010, Babcock Institute, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2010.
  

Links checked May 2011.