The amount of mangos imported into the United States from Ecuador and Peru this season lag behind the volumes brought into the country last year.At the end of the first week in December, the total volume of imported mangos from Ecuador reached 6.8 million boxes, which is 1.4 million fewer boxes than were imported by the same week last year. The projected total amount of fruit received from Ecuador this import season, which is expected to last into January, is 8.6 million boxes.
As of the end of last week, prices for a box of Tommy Atkins 7s from Ecuador were between $6.00 and $7.00 at the Philadelphia port of entry, between $5.00 and $7.00 at the South Florida ports of entry and between $6.50 and $7.50 at the Southern California ports of entry.
Arrivals from Peru have also trailed imports from last season. While just over 441,000 boxes of mangos had arrived from Peru by the end of the first week of December in 2013, shipments from Peru were 11,000 boxes by the end of the first week of this month. But unlike Ecuador, the Peruvian import window is just getting underway, so there's still time before April, when the Peruvian season is expected to wrap up, for total imports to reach the 9.0 million boxes which are expected to enter the United States.