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Global apple juice production in 2003/04 reflects a projected record production in China, the worlds top producer. Small production increases in Argentina, Chile, Italy, Poland, and Spain are helping to bolster the world trend by offsetting declines in Germany, Hungary, New Zealand, South Africa, and the United States. The United States is expected to have another year of declining apple juice production, down 6 percent from 2002/2003.
http://www.fas.usda.gov/htp/horticulture/Apple%20Juice/Apple%20Juice%20Feature%20May%202004.pdf#search='apple%20juice%20concentrate%20production'
Farmers struggling to recover from glut of apple-juice concentrate
Tuesday, December 5, 2000
By LINDA ASHTON
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WENATCHEE -- A flood of below-cost Chinese apple juice concentrate subsided with the imposition of a U.S. tariff on imports, but apple growers still struggle to recover from prices that plunged dramatically two years ago.
There is a glut of apple-juice concentrate on the global market, said Kraig Naasz, director of the U.S. Apple Association, an industry trade group in McLean, Va.
"While we have succeeded in preventing the Chinese from exporting unfairly priced concentrate to our market, it's still being sold somewhere in the world, displacing sales wherever that's occurring," he said.
The International Trade Commission would eventually rule that the cheap concentrate had economically damaged U.S. producers and, in May, the U.S. Department of Commerce imposed a 52 percent duty on most of the Chinese concentrate imports to even competition.
In Wenatchee, a 55-year-old tree-fruit lending cooperative has stopped making loans and will shut down next year because apple farmers aren't making enough money to cover the cost of production.
When prices are "way below -- I mean way below -- the cost of production, then you know you've got problems."
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/juic05.shtml
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