Investigation of Chinese fruit industry requested

The Pacific Northwest Canned Pear Service joined forces with the California canned peach and fruit cocktail industries to ask the U.S. government to investigate the Chinese canned fruit industry. China has become a major supplier of canned pears to the United States. The volume of pear imports from China soared between 2000 and 2003, but then leveled off. China supplies two-thirds of the one million cases of canned pears coming into the United States each year. Prices of the Chinese pears have remained at about $15 a case delivered, despite higher fuel costs. Rich Baldoz at Snokist Growers said ocean […]