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Article: Japan is no. 1 and growing market for U.S. horticulture.
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- AgExporter
- Article date:
- September 1, 1992
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It doesn't matter whether you peel it, sip it, shake it, crack it or munch it, when it comes to sales of U.S. horticultural products, Japan is the No. 1 offshore customer. Name any horticultural import in Japan and the United States often is at or near the top of the supplier list.
U.S. horticultural exports to Japan were a record $1.1 billion in 1991, 13 percent above 1990 and 47 percent above only five years ago. The United States has a hefty slice of the horticultural pie--29 percent--of the total value of Japan's 1991 imports.
Last year, the United States supplied over 90 percent of Japan's imports of a host of products: shelled and prepared ...