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WPB Week #28/18, 9 - 13 July 2018

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In Indonesia, pepper harvest is on going; but market is not brisk. In Lampung, local price of black pepper price farm quality was reported unchanged at the level IDR 35,000 per Kg, while in Bangka a marginal decrease was reported. In Sarawak the price was reported stable. In Viet Nam, the market of pepper is reported to have been weakening during the week and price decreased further to VND 52,500 per Kg locally for black and VND 87,500 per Kg for white pepper from VND 55,000 and VND 92,500 per Kg respectively for black and white pepper during last week. FOB price of Viet Namese black 550G/L was US$ 2,600 per Mt, decreased from US$ 2,750 and US$ 4,050 per MT last week.


IMPORT OF PEPPER BY UNITED KINGDOM:

In the last decade, import of pepper into the United Kingdom increase year by year, from 7,200 Mt in 2007 to 14,300 Mt in 2016. In 2017 however, the import decreased to 12,900 Mt, consisting of 4,550 Mt of whole pepper and 8,750 Mt. of ground pepper. Import of whole pepper decreased by 2,900 Mt, while for ground pepper increased by 1,500 Mt. Viet Nam, the largest supplier supplied 33% of pepper into the United Kingdom. United Kingdom also imports significant quantity of pepper through Netherlands. In 2018 the import is estimated to remain high, since output of this year harvest in Viet Nam is reported to remain good. During January - April 2018, The United Kingdom has imported 4,040 Mt of pepper consisting of 1,370 Mt of whole and 2,670 Mt of ground pepper. As against import in the same period last year, there was a decrease of 3%

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