The Japanese Market for U.S. Oranges
April 14, 2008A recent report from the Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture analyzes trends in the Japanese market for U.S. oranges. The largest export markets for U.S. oranges are Canada, China, Japan and South Korea. Japan is the third largest market for U.S. oranges. Japan’s domestic production represents the tiny share of the U.S. imports. The U.S. imports of oranges to Japan reached about $70 mln in 2006, or almost 100,000 tons.
Japan was the largest foreign importer of U.S. oranges in the late eighties. U.S. exports of oranges to Japan reached peak in the middle of nineties. Since nineties the demand for the U.S. oranges has been mostly flat. Aggregate U.S. orange exports to all foreign markets are
between 500,000 and 700,000 metric tons per year. Demand for U.S. oranges from Canada, China and South Korea shifted the Japanese market to the third/fourth place.
This report investigates Japan’s orange market, especially consumption, and factors that affect Japan’s imports from the United States.
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