Executive Summary
The countries analyzed included Canada, China, France, Germany, Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Poland, United Arab Emirates, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, United Kingdom and United States. Within these countries, wholesale markets in the following cities were considered: Atlanta, Birmingham, Boston, Calgary, Chicago, Dallas, Dubai, Hamburg, Hong Kong, London, Montreal, Moscow, Paris, Riyadh, Rotterdam, Seattle, Seoul, Taipei, Tianjin, Tokyo, Toronto, Vancouver and Warsaw.
The resulting +300 pages guide provides insight in each market for each product and for each category of data. Using a traffic light board each market is qualified in terms of tariffs and trade restrictions, sanitary restrictions and logistics feasibility. It provides a quick snapshot at economic and demographic information, per capita consumption of fruits and vegetables, a global trade and a trade with Mexico summary, imports of the selected products, main supplier countries, values per country and trends, historical prices, price seasonality, expected transportation cost, and a business directory guide.
Study snapshot
The consulting team approached the study with two fronts. One directly related with trade historical data acquisition, processing and analysis; and the second related to trade and sanitary restrictions, and logistics feasibility. In the process, over 60 sources of data and information were retrieved and used. Each team processed and analyzed its data sets to build the information needed for the resulting guide. For each market analyzed, the guide was organized with the following content structure:
COUNTRY SPECIFIC
- Summary
- Current Environment
- International trade proneness
- Bilateral relation with Mexico
- Restrictions and requisites for international trade
- Trade restrictions, regulation and barriers
- Food safety
- Environmental restrictions
- Import permits
- Quality grading
- Packing and labeling
- Documentation for trade
- Tariffs and quotas
- Imports
- 5-year imports per product
- 13-year vegetable consumption per capita
- Main supplier countries
- Volume, value and share of imports per country per product
MARKET SPECIFIC
- Macroeconomics
- Estimated volume
- Historical prices
- 5-year monthly prices per lb per product
- 5-year yearly average prices per lb per product per country of origin
- 5-year weekly average prices per lb per product
- Last year daily prices per lb per product
- Logistics costs
- Business directory