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Chile Cherry Sales to China Disappoint on Oversupply, Demand Lag

Antonia Mufarech
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Chile’s cherry exports to China faced a second consecutive weak season due to oversupply and misaligned demand, with shipments peaking too early before the Lunar New Year. Unfavorable weather accelerated Chile’s harvest by 10 days, flooding the market with excess fruit in early weeks when Chinese demand was still low. The later timing of China’s Lunar New Year delayed peak consumption, leaving Chilean exporters with surplus stock as demand shifted later in the season. Frutas de Chile’s cherry committee confirmed the disappointing results but did not disclose revenue figures, citing preliminary assessments. The mismatch between supply timing and holiday demand highlights ongoing challenges for Chilean growers in China’s competitive fruit market.
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Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the worldAmericas+1 212 318 2000EMEA+44 20 7330 7500Asia Pacific+65 6212 1000Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the worldAmericas+1 212 318 2000EMEA+44 20 7330 7500Asia Pacific+65 6212 1000Chile notched a second disappointing season of cherry sales in China after exporting too much fruit too far ahead of the Lunar New Year holiday when consumption traditionally peaks.Weather conditions brought Chile’s harvest forward by about 10 days, concentrating a larger volume of fruit in the early weeks of shipments, the cherry committee of trade association Frutas de Chile said in a preliminary assessment Monday. At the same time, a later Chinese New Year pushed demand farther out into the sales season. The group didn’t release revenue data.

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