Source: Chris Koger, AGWEB, 8/29/19


With overall U.S. apple exports down 27% in the 2018-19 season, growers are bracing for a 10% increase on apples to China. The increase, which begins Sept. 1, brings total tariffs on U.S. apples to China to 60%, according to the U.S. Apple Association, Falls Church, Va. “Margins are already razor-thin or negative so this new round of retaliatory tariffs on apples only adds to grower uncertainty as we head into harvest,” U.S. Apple Association President and CEO Jim Bair said in a news release.

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