BEIJING—China’s pork imports in September surged 76 percent from a year earlier while beef imports came close to a monthly record, as it stocked up on proteins after disease decimated its huge hog herd, customs data showed on Oct. 14.
Pork imports for the first nine months of the year were 1.33 million tonnes, up 43.6 percent from the same period a year earlier, said the General Administration of Customs in a statement.
