date:Dec 13, 2013
7%. Volumes of grapes, Chiles top fruit export, are only expected to be down 6 to 9%.
ASOEX did not have estimates for the declines in volumes of individual fruits shipping to the U.S.
About 819,000 metric tons of fresh fruit worth $1.22 billion were exported from Chile to the U.S. in 2012, according to the U.S. Department of Agricultures Foreign Agricultural Service.
In October, Ronald Bown, ASOEXs president, said the prolonged period of freezes in September was unprecedented in recent memor