Tag: exports

A growing trend in the Southern Hemisphere continues in the 2020/2021 season with a 20 percent increase in blueberry supply and more than 311,000 tons exported.

Recently, China published its official 2020 grape export results having reached $1.213 billion, 23 percent more than the previous year, making it the second year in a row that China is the world’s largest supplier of grapes.

Mexico moved ahead of Spain as the world’s leading strawberry exporter in 2020.

Today, April 28, 2021, the Mexican Supreme Court ruled by a unanimous vote of five to zero in favor of overturning a 2017 lower court decision that prevented the Mexican federal government from implementing regulations to allow for the importation of fresh U.S. potatoes throughout the country.

The Chilean Kiwi Committee released a second kiwifruit report where it highlights that at week 13, North America (U.S. and Canada) were the main destination for the fruit, having received 1,758 of the 5,254 tons shipped.

In recent years, the United States has been involved in trade wars, and, like other kinds, trade wars have casualties. One has been the apple industry.

Chilean Citrus exports are forecasted to reach a total volume of 387,000 tons by the Asoex Citrus Committee, representing a 6 percent increase for the 2021 season.

INEC released a preliminary report showing that bananas and pineapples together represented 16.2 percent of the total value exported by Cost Rica during 2020, according to Nacion, a Costa Rican reporting agency.

Costa Rica increased banana volume exports by 7 percent in 2020 generating a total of $1.12 billion despite the pandemic, according to the National Banana Corporation of Costa Rica (Corbana).