Friday, September 28th 2012 - 02:37 UTC

Chile becomes the leading exporter of cherry and dried plums to China

Chilean fruit exports to China have experienced a great increase in recent years having jumped 35% in 2011 (over 2010), with a value of 438 million dollars, according to statistics provided to the Chilean Ministry of Agriculture, which place Chile as one of the main fruit providers from the southern hemisphere.

How do you say thanks for the cherries in Mandarin

According to information provided by ProChile, during 2011, 75% of China's cherry imports were supplied by Chile. The country was also China's main provider of dried plums, with 72% of the total imported by this Asian nation.

Chile also led the supply of table grapes, with 58%, and apples, with 54% of the total. This way, China gradually takes over from the US as main destination market for Chilean fruit, and in the case of cherries, they have already become their main destination.

Overall, bilateral trade between Chile and China has increased from 24.7 billion dollars in 2010 to 29bn in 2011, according to Chinese statistics. During the first semester of 2012, trade between China and Chile has increased by 14.8%, reaching a value of 14.7bn.

 

Published in: Agriculture, Economy, International, Latin America.
Tags: Cherry, Chile, China.

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1 pecurto (#) Sep 28th, 2012 - 10:46 am
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2 British_Kirchnerist (#) Sep 28th, 2012 - 12:25 pm Report abuse
Better to grow cherries for China than cocaine for America!
3 Britworker (#) Sep 28th, 2012 - 12:48 pm Report abuse
Lol, I feel so much better for knowing this.
4 mastershakejb (#) Sep 28th, 2012 - 10:54 pm Report abuse
mmm, Chilean cherries are awesome! I'll never forget buying the liters of pure bing cherry juice cheap in Chile, AWESOME! Still miss it. You can't really find a proper competitor anywhere I don't think, nowhere else in the Americas have I found pure bing cherry juice, only “tart cherry juice” and some other cherry juice, both of which are very inferior. Please start exporting this juice to USA by the mega tanker full, Chile, we need it!
5 Fido Dido (#) Sep 30th, 2012 - 01:39 am Report abuse
“nowhere else in the Americas have I found pure bing cherry juice,”

Than I advice you to start traveling more inside the Americas, because you can find those awesome cherries in alot of countries inside the Americas.
6 mastershakejb (#) Sep 30th, 2012 - 09:21 am Report abuse
The cherries yes......but pure cherry JUICE, specifically bing cherry, much harder to find, and Chile's prices were incredible. A liter of pure bing cherry juice of the highest quality, without any preservatives, was like 3 bucks and change, impossible to find that anywhere........SPECIALLY not in inflation capital of the world Argentina, where everything is more expensive than USA even, absurd prices and truly an absurd nation.

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