date:Jul 02, 2019
Fruit importing firm IG International expects US apple imports to fall by 70 percent after India announced a rise in customs duties on the fruit.
Tarun Arora, director at IG Group of Companies, said: The US is the second largest producer of apples and we do not grow as many apples in India. For Q1 and Q2, we do not have enough apples ourselves so we used to bring it from the US. We are trying to reallocate that volume to Europe and some of the other southern hemisphere countries like Chile. How