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WPB Week #46/15, 16-20 November 2015

it.assistant@ipcnet.org 20 Nov 2015 1

Pepper price at producing countries were reported stable, both local as well as fob price. Marginal decreases in dollar price in Lampung and Bangka were due to weakening of Indonesian Rupiah against US dollar. In New York however, a marginal decrease of CF prices were noticed during the week under review.

IMPORT OF PEPPER BY THE UNITED STATES:
The most important market, United States of America imports at around 70,000 Mt of pepper annually. This year, import to the United States is estimated to remain high and cross 70,000 Mt as well. Under the situation of high prevailing price levels, inventory is considered to be very minimal and import volume this year reflects the real demand of the country. During three quarters of this year (January - September 2015) the United States imported 60,428 Mt of pepper, comprising of 39,492 Mt of black, 3,934 Mt of white and 17,002 Mt of ground pepper. When compared to imports in the same period last year, import up to September increased by 15%. Significant increase was recorded by import of ground pepper by 61%. Import of black pepper also increased by 4%; while import of white pepper decreased by 4%. Vietnam was the main source of black pepper,
supplying 52% of black pepper imported into the USA. Brazil and Indonesia supplied 22 and 13% respectively. In the case of
white pepper, Indonesia supplied 57% and Vietnam 40%. Import of ground pepper was mainly from India (45%) and Vietnam
(31%).

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