Wednesday, 29/12/2021 16:06 (GMT+7)
Vietnam is currently the fifth biggest banana supplier to Japan, with the volume and value of imports increasing sharply in Jan-October 2021.
According to statistics from Japan Customs, Japan’s imports of bananas (coded HS 0803) in the 10 months reached 939.8 thousand tons, worth 93.6 billion JPY (equivalent to 822.8 million USD), an increase of 4.7% in volume and 3.5% in value over the same period last year. The average price of imported bananas reached 99.6 thousand JPY per ton, down 1.2% year on year.
Photo for illustration. (Source: congthuong.com.vn)
Bananas are one of the most popular fruits in the world. In Japan, bananas are commonly sold in supermarkets, convenience stores and grocery stores. Each household in the country uses between 9 and 15 bananas a month. However, Japan’s banana production is quite low and so bananas are mainly imported from countries around the world.
In the structure of banana supply to Japan, the Philippines is the largest supplier, accounting for 75.8% of the total amount of bananas Japan imported in the 10 months. It was followed by Ecuador, Mexico, Guatemala and Vietnam.
The proportion of imports from Vietnam accounted for 0.6% of Japan’s total banana imports, up 0.2 percentage points against the same period last year. The average import price of Vietnamese bananas was high, at 107,600 JPY a ton in the 10 months, a year-on-year decrease of 19.8%./.
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