Introduction Agricultural practices aimed at providing the population with necessary products are flexible and depend on several factors, including pricing policies, demand indicators, export market shares, and other criteria. In conditions of an excess of goods, the situation is complicated by the inability to sell in sufficient quantities, but in case of unforeseen situations, more significant problems may arise than the distribution of surplus products. In the context of this topic, the example of China may be considered, and as a commodity with an ambiguous import and marketing policy, pork will be applied. This topic is relevant due to numerous challenges that agricultural enterprises have faced this year, which, in turn, has led to changes in the system of imports and the procurement of this food raw material. Additional factors should also be taken into account, including Chinese market conflicts with individual exporters, as well as a dynamic pricing policy that determines supply and demand indicators. As a result, pork prices have grown significantly over the last year in the country, and the key goal of this work is to determine the reasons and potential outcomes of this increase. As sources for analysis, relevant academic resources will be involved, as well as the official reports of agricultural committees in which accurate and the latest data are given regarding the share of pork in the Chinese market and import indicators. Detailed graphs will make it possible to compare the indicators of different years and prove the thesis that in 2019, the cost of pork in the country increased due to specific factors, including the disease of the local livestock and other related challenges. Based on the outcomes of the assessment, relevant recommendations will be given, and acceptable economic and strategic steps will be considered. The key factors influencing the change in the share of pork and costs in the Chinese market are based on macroeconomic indicators, in particular, the characteristics of product imports and price volatility, but additional criteria should also be taken into account, including force majeure circumstances and investments in the agricultural livestock sector. Significance of the Topic One of the key reasons determining the significance of the topic is the unstable sanitary and epidemiological environment caused by the dangerous virus of African swine fever. According to Wang et al., in the summer of 2018, the country’s authorities announced an outbreak of the disease among livestock, which, according to experts, could get to Asia from Europe through pork smuggling (“African Swine Fever” 111). As a result, more than 100 million hogs have been infected with the virus, which affected Chinese agriculture and forced the authorities to take measures to address the supply of this food raw material to the domestic market (Wang et al., “African Swine Fever” 111). A tense situation in the trading market with some Western competitors, particularly the USA and Canada, has entered a stage of open rivalry. As Wu et al. remark, since the Chinese market is attentive to food quality and provides consumers with detailed information about the time of slaughtering livestock, del