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WPB Week #40/17, 2-6 Oktober 2017

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In general, the market was inactive and price at sources remained stable, except in Sri Lanka. In Viet Nam, the price of black pepper stood at VND 88,600 per Kg locally and for white pepper was VND 137,500 per Kg. Availability of pepper is getting limited in Viet Nam who is the largest pepper producer. It was reported that up to August 2017 Viet Nam has shipped a huge quantity of 167,000 Mt of pepper as against 136,000 Mt in the same period of last year. In Brazil, arrival from this year harvest is increasing. It was reported that approximately 28,55400 Mt of pepper was exported in the first 8 months Price for this week was USD 3,500 Mt (B grade) and USD 3,400 Mt and USD 3,500 Mt for B1 and B2 respectively.. (source: Royal Golden General Trading).

IMPORT OF PEPPER BY THE NETHERLANDS
The Netherlands as one of the important pepper trading countries in the Europe used to have imported around 15,000 Mt of pepper annually. Around 12,000 Mt was whole pepper and 3,000 Mt was ground pepper. In the last few years however, the export dropped year by year to 12,400 Mt in 2016 from 13,600 Mt in 2015 and 16,100 Mt in 2014. This phenomenon was likely due to suppliers in the producing countries exported directly to users or buyers in consuming countries. During January ÔÇô June 2017 import of pepper into the Netherlands was 5,900 Mt (3,800 Mt of whole and 2,100 Mt of ground pepper), registering a decrease of 2% as against 6,000 Mt imported in the same period of last year. Import of whole pepper decreased by 15%, but increased by 35% for ground pepper. Major share of pepper imported into the Netherlands was from Viet Nam (43%), followed by Indonesia (18%) and Brazil (16%).

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