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This expensive in Norway you mean ;;)

If that is an imported piece of meat, it has a tarrif of 300-400% applied

Don’t forget that Norway is not in the EU.

Import duties. You should compare it to local pork.

You forgot to add the private “haha some people actually pay this extra sum pfffhh!!!”-tariff the grocery chain adds.

Some people and I did a bit of math a couple of years ago, and we figured out that we could privately buy ten kilos in a supermarket, privately import it, shipped, and have it taxed, along with the added import tariff – and still make money off it if we paid ourselves 120kr/h and didn’t have to work more than two hours to sell the meat. And that was before the meat in general was hiked about 200%.

The greed involved here is so laughable that you can’t really say anything else than just .. look at it. It’s self-explanatory that none of this makes any sense.

one is Iberico one isn’t. In Spain the cost per kilo of the Iberico secret is 25€ for the supermarkets up to 50€ for really good quality stuff.

Danish produced pork is sold with almost negative profits in Spain to have excess meat being sold. Same applies for Norway I assume. The model is highly unsustainable and the idea is just to maximise profits in all markets even though there is a huge overproduction of pork, and Spain also has a large domestic pork production thus more competition when prok is exported from Denmark.
The same applies to why Norwegian or Danish fish is so expensive in domestic markets but cheaper in others. Diary. You name it.

Recently large grocers in Norway got a fine for cartel activity.

EDIT: had an LLM summarise it, but from Danish perspective:

exporters are stuck with millions of extra pigs that they have to dump into foreign markets like Spain at a loss just to keep the biological supply chain from collapsing. They save money on that exported meat by shipping it as raw, un-cleaved carcasses, meaning the expensive human labor of slicing and packaging happens under cheap Spanish wages, which is then sold in supermarkets with low VAT and low retail overhead. Back in Denmark, you are trapped in a domestic monopoly bubble where wealthy consumers demand local meat, meaning supermarkets face zero cheap foreign competition and can artificially inflate retail prices to maximize profit margins, all before the government adds a brutal, flat 25% VAT on your groceries. Basically, Danish big agro uses foreign markets for volume even if they bleed cash doing it, and relies on the captive, wealthy domestic Danish market to stay afloat, which is exactly why the model is collapsing and Danish Crown is currently closing slaughterhouses.

One is iberico, other isn’t.

You can tell clearly from the lack of marbling on the spanish pork

You know you are not comparing the same thing right? In spain in cheaper but it ranges between 30-50 depending how good it is

Meanwhile jarlsberg is 2x as expensive in Spain as in norway, make it make sense!!! /s

This is like comparing a5 wagyu to gilde “ekstra mør” ytrefilet xD

I bet if you try to buy Norwegian produce in iberia,it will be equally as expensive. Shipping and import on meat is super expensive