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WPB Week #05/18, 29 Jan. - 2 Feb. 2018

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In Lampung the market was very quiet. Trading at local market was very limited, but price was reported to have decreased further. This was likely affected by price changes in other source, like India which is now in harvesting season. In the last few weeks, pepper price in India decreased almost every week, following material from current harvest arrives in the market. This week however, price in India has shown stability, even increased from INR 410 per Kg at the beginning of the week to INR 416 per Kg at the week’s close. In Viet Nam, Sarawak and Sri Lanka the prices were reported stable. 

IMPORT OF PEPPER BY THE UNITED STATES: 

In the last four years, import of pepper into the United States of America was at around 70-80,000 Mt annually. During 2016 a volume of 75,400 Mt consisting of 48,000 Mt black; 5,900 Mt white and 21,500 Mt of ground pepper was imported into the United States, recording a decrease of 3% from 80,400 Mt (53,300 Mt of black; 5,500 Mt of white and 21,600 Mt of ground pepper) in 2015. In 2017 total import of the USA is estimated to increase as indicated by import performance achieved during January - November 2017. During the eleven months the United States imported 72,600 Mt (51,300 Mt of black pepper, 5,500 Mt of white pepper and 15,800 Mt of ground pepper) as against 70,400 Mt in the same period of previous year.  Viet Nam was the main source, supplying more than 50%. Brazil and Indonesia also supplied significant quantity around 15% each. India supplied around 10%, mainly ground pepper. 

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