In the first seven months of this year, Russia imported a total of 398.9 thousand tonnes of fruit and vegetables from China; a lower volume than the 417.4 thousand tonnes of the same period last year, but higher than the 391.8 thousand tonnes recorded two years ago, reports FAMMU/FAPA with data from Factsheet Russia.
From this it can be concluded that China has not observed a clear change in its volume of exports to Russia after the introduction of the embargo to EU imports.
In 2014, Chinese fruit and vegetable exports to Russia amounted to 706.7 thousand tonnes, compared to 654.7 thousand tonnes a year earlier. Of the nearly 399 thousand tonnes imported by Russian in 2015, about 100.2 thousand tonnes corresponded to fruit and the remaining 298.7 thousand tonnes to vegetables.
The most exported products were onions, with more than 69 thousand tonnes, tomatoes, with almost 66 thousand tonnes and cabbage, with 53.9 thousand tonnes. Shipments also included about 47.6 thousand tonnes of apples, 34.7 thousand tonnes of carrots, 22.7 thousand tonnes of garlic and 18.4 thousand tonnes of peppers.