Vietnam spent 1.6 billion USD importing many high-end fruits into cheap goods

Published 2023년 11월 7일

Tridge summary

The price of imported fruits in Vietnam, such as golden kiwi and Taiwanese red-fleshed kiwis, has significantly dropped due to abundant supply and decreased import taxes through free trade agreements. The price reduction has made imported fruits cheaper than domestic fruits, leading to an increase in sales. The country imported over 1.6 billion USD worth of fruits and vegetables by the end of October 2023.
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This morning, Ms. Pham Kim Tuyen - a fruit wholesaler in Hoang Mai (Hanoi) - offered to sell golden kiwi imported from New Zealand for 150,000 VND/box weighing 3.5kg, applicable to customers buying from 10 boxes. above. As for customers who order 1 box for 190,000 VND, order 2 boxes for 180,000 VND/box, order 5 boxes for 170,000 VND/box. Calculated, each 1kg of imported kiwi costs from 49,000-54,000 VND/kg depending on the number of customers buying each time. Ms. Tuyen said, this is a golden kiwi imported from New Zealand, size 22 fruits/box. Each box weighs 3.5kg, the fruit is hard, ripe and sweet, not a quality product. In the past, this size of kiwi usually cost 400-500 thousand VND/carton. Nowadays, kiwi has dropped sharply into a cheap product, selling for only a few tens of thousands of dong per kilogram in Vietnamese markets. "This is the cheapest price since this fruit was imported to Vietnam," she commented. There are even days when she runs wholesale to get quantities ...

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