Over the past few years, coconuts from Southeast Asian countries have rapidly gained popularity in China. Online sales of coconuts from Southeast Asia are booming as well. With the rising popularity of fresh coconuts and the increasing variety of coconut products, demand for Southeast Asian coconuts in China continues to expand.
Mo Jiaming, deputy manager of a Guangxi trading company, said that the company's total imports of coconuts from Thailand are expected to exceed 28,000 containers this year, and the average annual growth rate reached about 10 percent in recent years. He believes that in the future, the total amount of coconut imports will continue to increase.
According to statistics from China Customs, from January to July this year, China imported 566,000 metric tons of coconuts, an increase of 35.3 percent compared with 418,000 tons in the same period last year. From the perspective of exporters, coconuts exported to China during the first seven months this year were mainly from Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam, accounting for 48.6 percent, 32.5 percent and 18.4 percent, respectively.
Source: chinadaily.com.cn
