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Core Tip: According to statistics from the Russian Satellite News Agency in Moscow on January 3, based on public data, in the first nine months of 2024, Russia and the United States were the countries that imported the most oranges, accounting for a quarter of the global orange imports, or 681,000 tons. In terms of import value, the United States ranked first, while Russia ranked fifth.

EastFruit analysts note a difficult situation on the European fresh mandarin market at the end of 2024. Consumers are surprised by high prices for the product, and producers complain that despite the low harvest, the demand for these fruits is also relatively low. According to international fruit and vegetable market expert Fedor Rybalko, the mandarin harvest in Turkey has sharply decreased in 2024. At the same time, Turkey is the world's largest exporter of fresh mandarins by volume, and the third by value. Accordingly, it is the most important market player, exerting a huge influence on mandarin pricing in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. In addition, Turkey's influence on the EU mandarin market also continues to grow rapidly. Maryte Gailite, an expert at the Latvijas dārznieks vegetable growers association, notes that prices for mandarins and citrus fruits in general in Latvia are unusually high this season. “In the last two weeks of December, supermarkets have been offering tangerines of dubious quality for 1.99 euros/kg, and on sale for

They amounted to 30 thousand tons. In October-December 2024, Abkhazia exported 30 thousand tons of tangerines to Russia (the period of deliveries of new crop fruits started in October), Marina Zhupanova, press secretary of the Krasnodar Customs Office for the city of Sochi, told Interfax. This is 5 thousand tons more than for the entire last season. On the eve of the New Year holidays, the volume of tangerine deliveries increases, the expert noted. “Up to 1 thousand tons of tangerines per day come from Abkhazia, on average more than 200 trucks with agricultural products undergo customs control,” the customs representative specified. In addition to tangerines, Abkhazian entrepreneurs import oranges, with the volume of their deliveries to the Russian Federation amounting to 130 tons since the beginning of the season, lemons (270 tons), and feijoa (800 tons). At the same time, Zhupanova noted that citrus fruits, like other fresh or dried fruits, are included in the list of quarantine products subject to phytosanitary control and mandatory provision of phytosanitary certificates.