With a 9.84% increase in exports, Mexico became the third largest trading partner of Japan for agricultural food exports, which in 2016 closed at US $1,054 million.
Based on a report from the General Coordination of International Affairs, SAGARPA, which stated that between 2015 and 2016 international trade between Mexico and Japan increased by 10.19%, with a favorable agricultural food trade balance for that country estimated at US $1,043 million.
Mexico is Japan's main supplier of Persian limes, with 99% of the market; avocado, 93%; Melon, 79%; Asparagus, 56%; Mango, 49%; Tuna, 49%, and it is the only exporter of tequila and agave syrup.
In addition, it is Japan's second biggest supplier of kabocha squash and orange juice, as well as the third biggest supplier of broccoli and the fourth one of pork.
According to the report, last year the agricultural food products that had the highest growth in the Japanese market were avocado, 24.3%; Pork, 7.7%; Banana, 101%; Melon, 22.7%, kabocha squash, 8.46%, and asparagus, 35.5 percent.
A complement to this list includes orange juice, berries, coffee, pork products, lime, melon, banana and sea products, among others.
The meat sector accounts for 41.8% of Mexico's agricultural food exports to Japan.
Since the entry into force of the Mexico - Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) in 2005, agricultural food exports to that destination increased by 81.7%, from US $ 579.9 million, to more than US $1 billion in 2016.
The agricultural food trade between the two countries has grown by 83% in the referred period.
This growth has been consolidated thanks to the joint work between authorities of both countries and producers, in order to comply with the sanitary requirements that allow having a fluid agricultural food trade.
Source: eleconomista.mx