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WPB Week #09/13, 25 February - 1 March 2013

it.assistant@ipcnet.org 13 Mar 2013 7

BLACK PEPPER: The market showed a mixed response during the week. In India, pepper prices decreased by around 3%. This was likely influenced by sufficient quantity of new material from current crop entered the market. It is expected that the output of this year harvest will be better. In Sarawak, Vietnam and Sri Lanka, the local prices were reported to have increased, while in Lampung the prices were relatively stable.

WHITE PEPPER: In Bangka, the market was very quiet, due to very limited stock available in the market. In response to the high prices prevailed during last year, a limited stock along with material from last year harvest has been sold out. New material from this year harvest is expected to arrive in the market only by June/July 2013.

IMPORTOF PEPPER BY JAPAN:
During the last decade, import of pepper into Japan was relatively stable between 8-9,000 mt annually, with the exception in 2008. Import of ground pepper increased, while import of whole pepper decreased from year to year. Sarawak was the main source of whole pepper for Japan; while that for ground pepper, Indonesia replaced dominating Sarawak pepper. It is noted that share of ground pepper imported from Sarawak decreased from around 70% registered in early this decade to 33% in 2012. On the other side contribution of Indonesia increased from 10% to 59%.

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