The harvest season of California almonds in 2019 comes down in time. In the opening ceremony of “China Nuts Health Week” held the other day, Richard Waycott, the CEO of Almond Board of California, released the latest data of US Ministry of Agriculture: the almond fruiting area in California in 2019 keeps increasing, about 2.2 billion lbs (equaling to 997,900t) this year.

“As the major almond producing region in the world, the Californian almond industry will continuously cooperate with Almond Board of California, Chinese trade merchants and brand merchants to expand the Chinese market and provide high quality Californian almonds stably to over 1.3 billion Chinese consumers”, said Richard Waycott in his speech. He is still optimistic about long-term development of Californian almonds in the Chinese market based on the favorable trend.

Regardless of the trade war, from Sept. 1 this year, the tariff of imported unshelled almonds and almond nuts in the USA is raised from 50% to 60%. Moreover, in the middle of December, the tariff of canned almonds will be adjusted to 20% from 15%, and of canned non-vinegar pickled from 30% to 40%. Moreover, due to former twice tariff rises, the almond export volume from California to mainland and Hong Kong China from August, 2018 to June 2019 dropped 25% (19,000metric ton). On the contrary, due to the trade war and zero tariff of FTA, the export of Australian almonds to mainland and Hong Kong China increased 1.352% (26,309 metric ton) in the same period.