First semester 2023: China, Germany, and Mexico are the main buyers of Chilean dried plums

This superfood is imported to nearly 70 countries around the world. In the first half of 2023, China, Germany and Mexico became the three main destinations for Chilean dried plums, which, as a whole, considering 67 countries, reached 25,616 metric tons (MT) that reached a value of US$ 104.4 million. Regarding the three countries on the podium, shipments to China reached 5,816 metric tons (MT) of dehydrated plums, equivalent to US$19 million, while to Germany they were 3,455 MT, equivalent to US$15.9 million, and to Mexico the volume reached 2,359 MT and US$8.7 million. The next destinations were Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom, Russia, the United States, Italy and Australia. The rapid return to normality of the Russian market, a historic buyer of this Chilean fruit, is striking, a location that was diminished in 2022 by the start and development of the war with Ukraine. The information is provided by the Office of Agrarian Studies and Policies (Odepa), an agency under the ...