Will 2022 see the first shipment of Zimbabwe citrus to China?
China
Zimbabwe
Published Mar 30, 2022
Tridge summary
Citrus will be the first-ever fresh fruit product to be exported from Zimbabwe to China.
Original content
China and Zimbabwe in January signed an export protocol agreement for the exportation of fresh citrus fruits from Zimbabwe to China. Having passed that crucial milestone, growers and exporters still need to undertake further preparation before the General Administration of Customs of China (GACC) adds Zimbabwean citrus to its list of permissible fresh fruit imports, which signals formal market access to China for a particular fresh fruit from a given region. It therefore remains to be seen when exactly the first shipment of Zimbabwean citrus will depart for China, although industry insiders remain hopeful that it can be sometime in 2022. Citrus will be the first-ever fresh fruit product to be exported from Zimbabwe to China, and Zimbabwe will be only the fifth African nation to be approved to export a fresh fruit product to China. Stakeholders in the Zimbabwean citrus industry and government have been pursuing China market access since 2015. Europe is currently the main export ...
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