

Wine Import to China – 1H 2020 Data Analysis (2)
Below are the import data of sparkling wine and large-bottle wine (volume size between 2 liters up to 10 liters: China Customs imposes 20% import tariff, same as on bulk wine while comparing to the standard 14% imposed on still wine (volume size ≤ 2L) and sparkling wine). The still wine (volume ≤2L) category occupied 72% in volume and 90% in value which dominated the biggest piece of all types of wine import. Below is the ratio reference of each type of wine classified by vol


Wine Import to China – 1H 2020 Data Analysis (1)
Wine imported to China from January to June 2020 dropped over 30% on both volume and value. The downward trend seems fell to the bottom in April / May period (see the below charts) while we will see to confirm after acquiring the latest import data in July and probably August as well. 2020.01-06 : China Wine Import Data 2020.01-06 : China Wine Import Percentage change 2020 vs 2019 2020.01-06 Wine Import to China (by volume) 2020.01-06 Wine Import to China (by value) Related


Wine Imported to China Dropped in Volume – 2018 Data
The momentum of Chinese imported wine business experienced a blow due to political and economic factors (especially the Sino-US trade war). This was the first-time slow down since 2014 (Chinese government imposed austerity measure and anti-corruption campaign in 2013). Almost all sectors dropped in volume (from 4% to 11%), and thanks to the increasing average unit price which helped making a slight growth (2.11%) to the total import to US$2.856 billion (from US$2.797 billion

Bulk Wine Exporters – Where Should Your Work Focus On ?
The below chart shows the largest bulk wine importing provinces/municipalities which could be used as an indicator for international bulk wine exporters to where they should focus their sales and promotion work on. From the 2016’s data, Shandong Province alone took away 65% and 59% of share in volume and value respectively. Top 10 Bulk Wine Import Provinces / Municipalities - 2016 2016 Bulk Wine Import Data To further differentiate into a larger region to study and review, t


China Imported Wine Data, Bulk Wine, 1H-2017
Starting 2017, the former bulk wine sector (bottling size: > 2 liters) was further divided into: a). 2 liters up to 10 liters (2L < w ≤ 10L), and b). 10 liters up ( > 10 liters) The below chart is the import bulk wine data to those packing larger than 10 liters. The top three export countries: Chile, Australia and Spain aggregately occupied 86.08% and 86.15% share in volume and value respectively. Wines from nine countries had an average unit price less than US$1.00 per lit


China Imported Wine Data, Sparkling Wine, 1H-2017
The total import of sparkling wine into China for the first 6 months in the year valued US$34 million and had a volume closed to 6.72 million liters. This made an average of US$5.07/liter and occupied a 2.73% share in the total imported wine market. * The blue colour shown the top 5 highest unit pricing and the red colour shown the bottom 5’s pricing. The leaders - French, Italian and Spanish sparkling wines still dominated the sparkling wine market sector, holding a total s


2016 China’s Imported Wine Data IV – Sparkling Wine Market Is Still In Top-Tier Cities
The sparkling wine import continued a declining trend and getting to be stable in 2017. It is a niche but still not a favorable wine drink to most of Chinese wine consumers. Sparkling wine marketers should focus and spend most of their effort in the three most developed regions in China where most of sparkling wine (80%) sold in these three markets, i.e. Shanghai, Beijing and Guangdong Province. Overall every 50 bottles of wine sold last year, one bottle was sparkling wine.


2016 China’s Imported Wine Data III – Bulk Wine (> 2 Liter) An Insight and Analysis to Where Thes
Although the value of bulk wine imported in 2016 only occupied 4.77% to the total import wine, while it still occupied 22.54% in terms of total import volume. The import of bulk wine in 2016 was slightly the same as in 2015 (2.1 million liters less or 1.5% decrease) while the total value increased by 14%. This was mainly contributed by the high unit price of Australian wine (@US$1.02/liter) as the Aussie winemakers’ bulk wine sales increased 127.7% in volume and 164.6% in v


2016 China’s Imported Wine Data II – Bottled Wine (≤ 2 Liter) An Alert to Spanish Wine Producers
The bottled wine segment grew moderately on both value (16.83%) and volume (21.57%) comparing to 2015’s import data. Average unit price slightly dropped 3.9%. Below is the top 20 wine export countries (ranked according to import value) to China which accounted for 99.60% and 99.47% of shares in value and volume respectively. *Ukrainian wine, replacing Austrian wine, ranked 18th in the import volume ranking. The top five exporting countries were still France, Australia, Chile


2016 China’s Imported Wine Data I – General Information A Moderate and Healthy Growth Year
China experienced a moderate and steady growth in imported wine in 2016, value and volume increased 16% and 15% respectively. The breakdown according to categories is: The change in percentage of 2016 vs 2015 is: The traditional imported bottle-wine segment (≤ 2 liter) still enjoyed a healthy growth attached to China’s 6.7% economic (GDP) growth in 2016. Australian bulk wine overtook Spanish’s to be the number two which might be the reason contributing to the value growth (+