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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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This is set to be a good year for Morocco’s citrus growers, with exports at their highest levels for two decades (around 680,000 tons). This follows a 2016-2017 campaign in […]
Tue 10/04/2018 by Richard Wilkinson
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What should the next generation of wholesale markets be like? Ioannis Triantafyllis, member of the board of the World Union of Wholesale Markets, recently set out his vision for the […]
Tue 03/04/2018 by Julie Butler
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Russia’s agriculture safety watchdog said on March 28 that it is to allow tomato imports from two more Turkish firms as of March 29. This will take to twelve the […]
Tue 03/04/2018 by Richard Wilkinson
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The UK’s tomato market is unique and very diverse. The average consumer in the UK eats 160g of fresh tomatoes per week. While the UK produces around 92,000 tons of […]
Tue 03/04/2018 by Richard Wilkinson
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New Zealand’s statutory kiwi exporter Zespri has reported sales of over 430,000 tons of New Zealand-grown kiwifruit in 2017. In addition to this total, 14 million trays of Zespri kiwifruit […]
Tue 03/04/2018 by Richard Wilkinson
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Morocco’s citrus production continues to increase. Expert forecasts for the country’s 2017-18 crop indicate a 3% rise in volumes, to 2.3 million tons. According to the secretary-general of the Moroccan […]
Tue 03/04/2018 by Richard Wilkinson
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In the period from September to December 2017, avocado exports from Andalusia dropped by 2% in volume and increased by 16% in value compared to the same period last season. […]
Tue 03/04/2018 by Richard Wilkinson
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New Zealand’s horticultural exports are forecast to grow by 4.2% in 2018 with the continued expansion of the country’s kiwifruit production area and generally favourable weather conditions for pipfruit and […]
Wed 28/03/2018 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
