{"id":845,"date":"2020-10-28T13:59:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-28T12:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ostelandet.no\/ost\/?p=845"},"modified":"2020-10-28T15:35:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T14:35:11","slug":"import-av-ost-oker-kraftig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ostelandet.no\/en\/import-av-ost-oker-kraftig\/","title":{"rendered":"Imports of cheese are increasing sharply"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published: 24.10.20, 21:00 The Nation, Fredrik Borchgrevink Lange<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Imported cheese now accounts for 16.5 percent of sales in Norway. That worries Tine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Imports from abroad are today Tine's biggest competitor, and the competition is fiercest with the cheeses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The import of cheese has increased sharply in the first half of the year, Tine explains in a video on their website member pages<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Imported cheese now accounts for 16.5 percent of sales in Norway. In a normal year, cross-border trade comes on top of that, but the corona pandemic means that its effect is significantly reduced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

- The ordinary import of cheese increased by as much as 9 per cent in the first half of the year. We think that is demanding. There is a lot of milk in a kilo of cheese, says Tine's subject manager for politics and community relations, Helle Huseby, in the video.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you add substitute cheese on top, Norwegian dairy farmers miss out on producing 135 million liters of milk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

- It is a bit frightening that cheese imports are increasing. About 16 percent of our consumption of cheese is imported. This means that we have to work hard for Norwegian milk to be competitive in the face of imported milk, points out Lise Sandsbr\u00e5ten, who is also head of policy and public relations at Tine. Advertisement<\/p>\n\n\n\n