Dairy; Cheese - Production, Consumption, Exports, and Imports Statistics - 1996

**Year: 1996**
Country	Beginning Stocks (1000 MT)	Production (1000 MT)	Total Imports (1000 MT)	TOTAL SUPPLY (1000 MT)	Total Exports (1000 MT)	Total Dom. Consumption (1000 MT)	TOTAL Use (1000 MT)	Ending Stocks (1000 MT)	TOTAL DISTRIBUTION (1000 MT)
Algeria	0	3	6	15	0	14	14	1	15
Argentina	20	390	6	416	11	379	390	26	416
Australia	90	268	33	391	111	177	288	103	391
Austria	7	81	2	132	25	94	126	6	132
Belgium-Luxembourg	4	64	4	245	5	129	243	2	245
Brazil	0	385	32	417	0	417	417	0	417
Canada	39	289	23	351	15	297	312	39	351
Denmark	40	298	2	366	85	92	326	40	366
Egypt	0	325	17	342	0	342	342	0	342
Finland	6	83	1	101	0	71	93	8	101
France	20	1,594	10	1,766	112	1,233	1,708	58	1,766
Germany	35	947	19	1,420	113	977	1,380	40	1,420
Greece	97	216	5	368	4	253	272	96	368
Ireland	16	92	0	128	7	21	108	20	128
Italy	798	950	18	2,043	42	1,130	1,266	777	2,043
Japan	15	33	164	212	0	197	197	15	212
Korea; Republic of	0	0	15	15	0	15	15	0	15
Mexico	0	110	20	130	0	130	130	0	130
Netherlands	111	688	13	889	101	229	775	114	889
New Zealand	42	230	1	273	173	31	204	69	273
Poland	20	133	2	155	14	120	134	21	155
Portugal	0	66	1	79	3	74	79	0	79
Romania	6	92	0	98	0	92	92	6	98
Russian Federation	14	173	133	320	3	309	312	8	320
Spain	38	160	3	280	4	229	252	28	280
Sweden	40	127	1	193	2	142	150	43	193
Switzerland	19	133	30	182	57	125	182	0	182
Ukraine	2	60	1	63	3	57	60	3	63
United Kingdom	148	364	24	774	19	535	594	180	774
United States	187	3,274	152	3,613	32	3,360	3,392	221	3,613
Venezuela	11	77	3	91	0	54	54	37	91