CEF Associate, Susan Chan Shifflett, Quoted by Politico on Future China-US Apple Trade

The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is ramping up talks with China, the world’s largest producer of apples, to allow both countries to ship more of the produce item across borders. China produced roughly half of the world’s supply, but it is a much bigger consumer of apples than exporter, according to the USDA, and the country will likely ship mostly Fuji apples to the United States, which will not add up to much — about 10,000 tons per year. The U.S., meanwhile, is the world’s largest exporter of fresh apples.

However, China may not be sending many apples to the United States now, but we are consuming them, according to Susan Chan-Shifflett,  Associate of China Environment Forum at the Wilson Center. Two-thirds of the U.S. apple juice supply comes from Chinese apples, based on USDA data. In fact, China is the world’s leading exporter of apple juice concentrate and the U.S. is its largest buyer.

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