Who Let the Dogs Out? With canine ownership in Guangdong Province on the rise, there are increased opportunities for pet food and pet products. The import market for pet food products is steadily increasing, but not keeping pace with the rapid development of Chinese pet food exports. US pet food exporters also faced many challenges during the past couple of years due to the BSE ban on products containing beef. The following report was co-authored by staff from the Economic and Political Section of the US Consulate in Guangzhou.
Continued investment in infrastructure, along with rapid economic growth, have turned Shanghai into a regional trade and financial powerhouse. Beyond its own 20 million consumers, Shanghai serves as the gateway to cities throughout the Yangtze River region and deep into the interior.
This report presents China Customs agricultural, fishery, and forestry commodity trade data recorded from January to March 2006. Year to date agricultural, fishery, and forestry imports were $9.5 billion of which, $2.3 billion originated from the United States. Leading imports from the world were cotton, soybeans, untreated wood, natural rubber, and palm oil. China’s agricultural, fishery, and forestry exports were $8.4 billion, primarily processed aquatic products, corn and woodenware. The top twenty-five import and export commodity categories for China have remained relatively consistent with previous reports. March witnessed the first percentage increase, in comparison to the same time of previous year, in the value of China’s agricultural, fishery, and forestry imports from the United States since December 2004.
This report presents China Customs agricultural, fishery, and forestry commodity trade data recorded from January to February 2006. Year to date agricultural, fishery, and forestry imports were $5.5 billion of which $1.2 billion originated from the United States. Leading imports from the world were cotton, soybeans, untreated wood, natural rubber, and palm oil. China’s agricultural, fishery, and forestry exports were $5.2 billion, primarily processed aquatic products, corn and woodenware.
This report presents China Customs agricultural, fishery, and forestry commodity trade data recorded in January 2006. Year to date agricultural, fishery, and forestry imports were $3.0 billion of which, $635 million originated from the United States. Leading imports from the world were soybeans, cotton and tobacco leaves. China’s agricultural, fishery, and forestry exports were $3.1 billion, primarily processed aquatic products and wooden products.
Known as China’s Winter Wonderland, Harbin has quickly emerged as a major regional market for Northeast China, and beyond. The Northeast has gone through a series of dramatic changes, yet renewed and government-led initiatives have revitalized the economy of Harbin, and surrounding Heilongjiang Province. Traditionally cosmopolitan and commercially oriented, Harbin is the major trade, transportation, and communications hub for North China with a wealth of natural resources, bountiful supply of skilled labor and excellent positioning on the Chinese-Russian Far East border right next to Korean and Japan. Harbin offers considerable market opportunities for U.S. food, and agricultural products.
The retail food industry continues to grow and modernize as hypermarkets, supermarkets and convenience stores displace wet markets and other traditional outlets. Distribution systems have not kept pace however, and penetration of imported foods into the retail market remains relatively low.
As one of the earliest sectors opened to foreign investment, China's Hotel Restaurant and Institutional (HRI) sector continued to enjoy phenomenal and sustained growth in 2005 with revenues totaling US $110 billion. While the sector continues to undergo significant change, branding, franchising, off-site catering, informational technology, and portion control are all increasingly playing a role. Prosperous urban consumers are also changing with preferences moving rapidly toward healthy, nutritious, fast, and safe menus. High-end HRI markets have moved well beyond traditional major markets of Beijing, Guangzhou and Shanghai and into China's major Emerging City Markets (ECM).
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