MD_DA811 Cheese - Foreign Type Report 50 - Released on December 11, 2019 In Germany, the sliced cheese market tone is predominantly firm. Cheese suppliers are satisfied with their sale volumes. Currently, they are working on pre-holiday deliveries. Extensive requests from both domestic and international customers are keeping sliced cheese stocks very low. Retailers and the food service sector are building the stocks they need for the year-end holidays. Almost all available cheese offers are pre-scheduled for existing orders' fulfillments. According to contacts, partial delays in deliveries occurred throughout the week. At the moment, there is no cheese available to satisfy spot inquiries. To ensure that they will be served the volume of cheese needed, many buyers are obligated to accept higher prices. U.S. domestic prices for Blue, Gorgonzola, Parmesan, and Romano have increased $0.0350. Swiss cheese prices moved up $.0800. All the other prices are unchanged. WHOLESALE SELLING PRICES: FOB DISTRIBUTORS DOCK DOLLARS PER POUND (1000 - 5000 POUNDS, MIXED LOTS) : NEW YORK VARIETY : IMPORTED : DOMESTIC : : Blue : 2.6400-5.2300 : 2.4750-3.9625* Gorgonzola : 3.6900-5.7400 : 2.9825-3.7000* Parmesan : -0- : 3.8625-5.9525* Romano : -0- : 3.6650-5.8200* Sardo Romano (Argentina) : 2.8500-4.7800 : -0- Reggianito (Argentina) : 3.2900-4.7800 : -0- Jarlsberg : 2.9500-6.4500 : -0- Swiss : -0- : 3.5300-3.8525* Swiss (Finland) : 2.6700-2.9300 : -0- * = Price change. Information for the period December 9 - 13, 2019, issued weekly Published by: Dairy Market News - Madison, WI FLORENCE KONE-GONZALEZ, (608)422-8594 Email: florence.konegonzalez@usda.gov Additional Dairy Market News Information: Dairy Market News (DMN) by Phone: (608)422-8602 DMN Website: https://www.ams.usda.gov/market-news/dairy DMN MARS (My Market News): https://mymarketnews.ams.usda.gov