Shortage of Tnuva carton milk and imported butter is expected to increase in the coming days

The shortage of Tnuva carton milk and imported butter is expected to increase in the coming days: at the end of the week, retailers reported a delay in the supply of Tnuva carton milk and a shortage of butter.
Since Stra left the field of supervised milk bags and reduced the production of supervised milk cartons due to economic unviability, the pressure on Tnuva has increased and in addition, after checking with Tnuva it turns out that one of the machines for filling cartons has been shut down for maintenance purposes, which will create a 7%-10% shortage of cartons in the coming days.
Tnuva emphasizes that there is no shortage of milk in general or of milk in jugs or bags, but specifically of milk in cartons - which is the preferred form of packaging for the Israeli consumer.
In addition, it was reported that butter cannot be found in some stores, mainly because the prices of butter abroad have soared and made the import of butter at the current price unprofitable for the importer. Tnuva said that for this reason it has stopped importing butter and that local production is still suffering from a lack of fat.
The lack of cartons of supervised milk and butter is added to the lack of discounted yellow cheese imported to Israel by Shufersal, Euro departments of Willipod and Rami Levy. The reason: the amount of discounted cheese imported as part of duty-free quotas distributed by the state in 2022 has been eliminated and the tender for the quota for 2023 is only published these days. In fact, even after the announcement of the tender, it is expected to take another month or two until the names of the winners are announced and another period of time will be required for the importers to organize themselves.
The total tax-free quota for 2022 was about 6,000 tons. Last year, following the protest over the price increases, there was an increase in demand for cheap yellow cheese substitutes in the deli, which led to the elimination of the annual duty-free amount at a faster rate than the year before. However, market sources told ynet that during the year, the price of cheese abroad became more expensive due to the increase in the price of raw milk in Europe, and therefore in their estimation the importers will have difficulty offering a cheap price as before in the next tender.