Benefiting from factors such as population growth, income growth, and higher levels of urbanization, my country's fruit consumption continues to increase, and my country's fruit import and export trade is active. Affected by the epidemic, the national import volume of fresh and dried fruits and nuts dropped by 9.6% from January to November 2020; my country is the world's largest fruit producing area and consumer market, and my country produces more apples and oranges. In the past two years, my country's exports of fresh and dried fruits and nuts have been in good condition. Both the export volume and export value have achieved an increase of more than 10%, and both volume and price have risen.

Imports: imports fell by 9.6%

Benefiting from factors such as population growth, income growth, and increasing levels of urbanization, my country's fruit consumption continues to increase. my country's fruit import and export trade is active, accounting for more than 6% of the global fruit trade. my country's fruit imports continue to maintain steady growth. From 2015 to 2020, the national import value of fresh and dried fruits and nuts continued to grow. However, in 2020, the number of imports fell by 9.6%. Mainly affected by the epidemic, logistics has been affected. my country's imports of fresh and dried fruits and nuts have been affected to varying degrees, resulting in a shrinking import.

From the perspective of fruit categories, the top ten fruits imported in the first half of 2020 include fresh durians, fresh cherries, fresh grapes, bananas, etc., among which fresh durians ranked first, reaching 1.5 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 68% year-on-year. Large; fresh dragon fruit imports reached 360 million U.S. dollars, an increase of 85%. TOP10 fruit categories accounted for 84% of total fruit imports.

From the perspective of supplier countries, in order of import value, Thailand ranks the first supplier. The main reason is that durian is one of the famous tropical fruits, originating in Malaysia. Among Southeast Asian countries, Thailand planted more, and my country imported a large amount of fresh durian from Thailand, and the imported quantity accounted for more than 90%.

Export: to achieve a 10% increase in both volume and price

China is the world's largest fruit producing area and consumer market. From the perspective of different fruit categories, my country produces more apples and oranges. In the past two years, my country’s exports of fresh and dried fruits and nuts have been in good condition. Both the export volume and export value have achieved an increase of more than 10%. From January to November 2020, my country’s exports of fresh and dried fruits and nuts are 3.33 million tons, an increase of 10.6 year-on-year. %; The export value reached 5.9 billion US dollars, a year-on-year increase of 16.5%. my country’s economic recovery is accelerating, and the trade in agricultural products has generally improved, driving the growth of exports of fresh and dried fruits, nuts and other agricultural products.

In terms of category analysis, the TOP7 categories of national fruit exports in the first half of 2020 include fresh apples, citrus, fresh pears, lemons and limes, fresh grapes, etc. Among them, the export value of fresh apples ranks first, reaching 510 million U.S. dollars , An increase of 21% year-on-year. The fruit category with the largest increase in exports was fresh pears, with an export value of US$300 million, an increase of 88% year-on-year. The TOP7 categories account for 80% of the total fruit exports.

From the perspective of export destination countries and regions, in order of export value, the top two destination countries and regions are Vietnam and Thailand. Apple is the fruit category with the largest export volume and export value in my country. The overseas markets of my country's apples are dominated by Southeast Asian countries, among which Vietnam and Thailand are the majority.

From the perspective of import and export prices, the average export unit price of fresh and dried fruits and nuts rose from US$1,701/ton in 2015 to US$1,765/ton in November 2020. Converted at a ratio of 1 US dollar = 6.9 yuan, my country’s fresh and dry fruits The average export unit price of fruits and nuts rose from 11,735 yuan/ton to 12,181 yuan/ton, which was generally higher than the average import unit price.

Source text reprinted from:Analysis on the Import and Export Status Quo of China's Fresh and Dried Fruits and Nuts Industry in 2020 Export Volume and Price Rise