Nearly 1,500 Agri- Products and Foods from ASEAN Can Be Exported to China with Fruit Trade as Hotspot

Nearly 1,500 Agri- Products and Foods from ASEAN Can Be Exported to China with Fruit Trade as Hotspot. For more information on export to China, please call SINOLOBEN, service Email: sinoloben@sloben.com.

Sep. 13, the 7th China-ASEAN Ministerial Conference on Animal and Plant Quarantine and Food Safety Cooperation was held by video. Up to now, nearly 1,500 agricultural products and foods from the ten ASEAN countries can be exported to China. In recent years, imports of agricultural products from ASEAN countries have increased by 10.3% y/y and a year-on-year increase of 41.7% from Jan. to Aug. this year.

Fruits account for a relatively large proportion of China's imports from ASEAN countries. In the first seven months of this year, Thailand's fruit exports to China, one of the largest fruit exporting countries, increased significantly. The annual export is expected to reach 180 billion baht, which is a 30% increase. Currently, Guangxi is an important export channel for Thailand's durian mangosteen and longan. There are two main land transport routes for fruit between China and Thailand. In 2018, the fruit exported via the two land routes reached 421,657 tons, worth 17.857 billion baht, and in the first eight months of this year, it reached 691,653 tons, worth 66.370 billion baht.
 
Sep. 13, China's customs authority and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of Laos signed the "Protocol of the General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of the Lao People's Democratic Republic on the Plant Quarantine Requirements for Fresh Passion Fruit Exported to China". Up to now, a total of 8 Lao agricultural products have signed the bilateral protocol for export to China, namely rice, corn, bananas, watermelon, dried cassava, sweet potatoes, fresh beans and passion fruit. The signing of this protocol makes Laos the second country that can export passion fruit to China after Thailand.
 

In addition, Cambodia is also one of the main ASEAN countries exporting fruits to China. According to a news released by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries of Cambodia on Sep. 2, Cambodia exported more than 310,000 tons of bananas in the first eight months of this year, and China is its largest export market. Since the successful export of Cambodian bananas to China in May 2019, it has shown a continued upward trend. The export volume of bananas has grown rapidly. In 2020, the total export volume has increased to US$112 million, a year-on-year increase of 128%. In the first eight months of this year, exports to China amounted to 272,000 tons, followed by Vietnam (37,000 tons) and Japan (533 tons). Cambodia exported fresh mangoes to China on May 7 this year, driving the entire mango industry chain. The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries estimates that Cambodia is expected to export 100,000 tons of fresh mangoes to China every year, accounting for about 10% of Cambodia’s annual mango production.

For further information about China's imports and exports of fruits, pls. contact:

Ms. Linda Li

0086（0）21 3538 3306

sinoloben@thecustoms.com.cn

 

As food importer & food distributor based in Frankfurt and Shanghai, Sinoloben Europa Trading GmbH helps client export to China and bring your food products to International Expo, e.g. China International Import Expo (CIIE), the world's largest import-themed expo.  Transferred from the network, such as intrusion and deletion.