New opportunities for Vietnamese fruit exports

The article highlights the growing international demand for Vietnamese fruits, with recent developments including the export of pomelo to Korea, fresh coconut and frozen durian to China, and passion fruit to the US, where it joins other Vietnamese fruits like dragon fruit and mango. The US and Vietnam have complementary agricultural products, and Vietnamese fruits are now sold in 60 global markets, with potential for further expansion in the US and Europe, which shows interest in tropical fruits.

In the past month, the Korean market has imported Vietnamese pomelo, and the Chinese market has also opened its doors to Vietnamese fresh coconut and frozen durian products. At the same time, in the US market, Vietnamese passion fruit has completed the negotiation process for technical requirements for export to the United States. Alexis M. Taylor, the US Department of Agriculture's Under Secretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs, said that the export of Vietnamese passion fruit to the United States has been a major challenge for Vietnam. Taylor said that the agricultural products between the United States and Vietnam are highly complementary, especially that many Vietnamese fruits are not available in the United States. At present, 8 kinds of Vietnamese fruits have been exported to the United States through formal trade channels, including dragon fruit, mango, grapefruit, rambutan, longan, lychee, star apple, coconut, etc. At the same time, Vietnam also imports ...