A wide variety of imported fruit in Guangdong has been welcomed by consumers, Guangzhou Customs said yesterday that earlier this year to continue selling fruit imports in Guangdong, 1 in February, Guangdong imported 112,000 tons of fruit, a significant increase of 37%.

According to customs statistics, imports of fruits, mainly from Thailand, the United States and the Philippines. Fruit imports from Thailand, 57,000 tons, an increase of 62.7%, accounting for the same period of Guangdong's total fruit imports half; followed by the United States and the Philippines. Longan, bananas, durian, grapes, mangosteen, etc. The main varieties are imported. The above-mentioned five kinds of fruit imports were 28,000 tons, 17,000 tons, 17,000 tons, 11,000 tons and 09,000 tons. Among them, the longan, Durian all from Thailand, the bananas from the Philippines, the main grape mainly from the United States and South America, mangosteen is produced in Thailand and Indonesia. Cherry is the highest fruit import prices, import price of 6569 U.S. dollars / tons, all from Chile.

Imports of fruit and a big "feel good" is a general decline in fruit prices, the overall level of the same period last year fell 5.6%. Before the import of five fruits, longan, banana, durian and mangosteen average price of imports have declined, and only average growth in imports of grapes, an increase of 9.3%.