inues to reduce apple exports to the Russian Federation, according to the official statistics.Russia imported just 118,000 tons of Chinese apples in the season 2012/13, a decrease of 9% year-on-year. For comparison, in the season 2011/12 China's apple exports to the Russian Federation reached 129,000 tons. Over the past five years, Russia's imports of apples from China have fallen by 41%.
However, despite lower exports, China has ranked third in apple exports to Russia for the third year in a row.
