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iFresh Fair Asia will take place this year between 13th and 15th November at the Shanghai New International Exposition Centre. The fair will bring together domestic and overseas traders from […]
Wed 02/05/2018 by Richard Wilkinson
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At the start of April, the first New Zealand kiwis of the season arrived in China, where demand for the fruit is booming. Indeed, Zespri expects record sales in the […]
Wed 02/05/2018 by Richard Wilkinson
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Experts are suggesting that the Australia may prove the main beneficiary of the US-China trade war, particularly when it comes to sales of apples and cherries, with China imposing a […]
Wed 02/05/2018 by Richard Wilkinson
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During the first two months of 2018, China’s fruit imports jumped 22% in volume and 58% in value. The main contributors to this growth are cherries, oranges, blueberries, and bananas. […]
Wed 11/04/2018 by Richard Wilkinson
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On April 2, 2018, China announced that it would be immediately applying additional tariffs on 128 US products in response to similar tariffs imposed by the US. Approximately US$2 billion […]
Wed 11/04/2018 by Richard Wilkinson
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Chinese producers are being encouraged to open up foreign markets to shift the excess of fruit production the country is seeing. Another cause of the imbalance is information asymmetry. Most […]
Tue 10/04/2018 by Richard Wilkinson
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Amidst an escalating trade war between China and the US, a historic event went little noticed. While the US has been exporting its apples to China since the 1990s, 2015 […]
Tue 10/04/2018 by Richard Wilkinson
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The world’s second largest economy, China, has announced it will retaliate to the imposition of tariffs on Chinese goods imposed by the US if an agreement cannot be reached with […]
Wed 28/03/2018 by Richard Wilkinson
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Chinese e.commerce platform Fruit Day is set to supply the Posy, an organic apple imported from New Zealand, introduced the Posy, a new organic apple grown in New Zealand. This […]
Wed 28/03/2018 by Richard Wilkinson
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The world’s largest vegetable producer, China, saw exports increase in value by 5.1% last year. However, Chinese vegetable exports to the EU only account for 2% of this number. Quality […]
Tue 13/03/2018 by Richard Wilkinson
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The 4.4 million tons of fresh fruit China imported in 2017 constituted a rise of 12%. This result is in sharp contrast with that of 2016, when fresh fruit imports […]
Tue 13/03/2018 by Richard Wilkinson
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The sugar orange farmers of China’s main production area, Guangxi, are not happy with the current state of the market, with prices far lower than the average of recent years. […]
Mon 12/03/2018 by Richard Wilkinson
