The global market for potatoes and deep-processed potato products has entered one of its most volatile and simultaneously transformational periods in its recent history.1 Amidst unprecedented overproduction in traditional agricultural regions, declining global prices, steadily rising production costs, and growing macroeconomic turbulence, a fundamental structural shift in trade flows is being observed.1 The epicenter of this shift is the Asia-Pacific region, where the People’s Republic of China (PRC) is rapidly evolving from the world’s largest domestic consumer into a dominant global exporter, reshaping established supply chains and aggressively displacing traditional leaders—the USA, Canada, and European Union countries.2 This analytical report presents a comprehensive study of the structural changes in the potato industry as of the first half of 2026. The analysis focuses on China’s export strategies, deep parsing of transactional data, the development of new transit corridors ...