Wine imports into China in 2021

The wild fluctuation of wine imports into China continued in 2021, according to the data just made available by Chinese customs (best wishes for those who want to try their hand at downloading the data, dozens of attempts are needed). Therefore, in 2021 wine imports fell by 11% in euros and by 8% in local currency, for a value of 1.43 billion euros. The decline, however, is isolated and concerns only Australia, which with duties in 2021 drops from 625 million euros to 47 million euros, ie essentially disappears from the Chinese market. Incredible. In 2019 it exported 774 million euros of wine. All the other exporters are earning, growing as you can see from the tables by 40-50%. For France, + 42% to 636 million euros and back to the top; for Chile + 45% to 281 million euros, and becomes the second supplier of the Chinese; Italy becomes the third exporter in the Chinese market, + 39% to 140 million euros. The second and perhaps most interesting news for us is that the Chinese ...