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Turkish exporters are travelling to China to get more share from China’s 2.6 trillion dollar imports and to reduce the foreign trade deficit between China and Türkiye, which has reached 41.6 billion dollars.
The world’s largest import fair and China’s most prestigious fair ‘CIIE – China International Import Expo 2024’, which is also the world’s largest import and China’s most prestigious fair, will be attended by 15 companies, 13 of which are from the food sector, with the Turkish National Participation organisation of the Aegean Exporters’ Associations (EIB).
Işık: ‘China offers great opportunities for food exports’
Mehmet Ali Işık, Head of the Aegean Dried Fruits and Products Exporters’ Association, said that they want to focus on marketing activities for China within the scope of the Ministry of Trade’s Far Countries Strategy and noted that China offers great opportunities for food exporters.
Emphasizing that 13 of the 15 companies participating in the CIIE – China International Import Fair with Türkiye’s National Participation Organisation in 2024 were from the food sector, said, “In the January – September period of 2024, our food products exports to China increased from 163 million dollars to 171 million dollars. We will be able to be present in the Chinese market in dried fruits, olive oil, wine, cereals, pulses, oil seeds, aquaculture products, hazelnut fruit and vegetable products, stone fruits.”
“If the negotiations carried out by our Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry for Phytosanitary Certificate agreements are concluded positively, our food exports to China will reach 1 billion dollars in the medium term,” Işık added…
