date:Jul 02, 2019
India would ultimately pass Canada as Washington's No. 2 export market, reaching 8 million boxes by the season's end, it said. Currently, Mexico is the No. 1 export market.
However, India had imported far fewer boxes of the 2018 crop. As of June 15, Washington state had shipped about 2.6 million boxes to India. It is expected to slow down even more with India adding a 20 percent retaliatory tariff on apples, bringing the total duty to 70 percent.