China’s health foods body optimistic despite COVID-19 disruptions
China’s import and exports of health foods for this year will remain the same as last year or even see a slight growth despite trade disruptions caused by COVID-19, the China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Medicines and Health Products (CCCMPHIE) has forecasted.
As the country has only recently allowed companies to resume operations, the lack ofraw materials may lead to a temporary insufficient supply of nutrition health foods, inturn affecting exports in the short term.
However, the trade body is optimistic of growth in the second half of this year as thepandemic gets under control and the global supply chain resumes normality, it said inarecent report which detailed the imports and exports of health foods in China for lastyear."
Right now, because the pandemic has broke out in Europe and the US, the factories inEurope and the US have stopped manufacturing and that there is a lack of factories whichare operating. This has affected the usual product supply, and will also affect the import andexport of raw materials and finished 'products."
In China, he said that provinces such as Zhejiang, jiangsu, and Guangdong were seeingproduction get back up to speed.
As the country has only recently allowed companies to resume operations, the lack ofraw materials may lead to a temporary insufficient supply of nutrition health foods, inturn affecting exports in the short term.
However, the trade body is optimistic of growth in the second half of this year as thepandemic gets under control and the global supply chain resumes normality, it said inarecent report which detailed the imports and exports of health foods in China for lastyear.
Speaking to Nutralngredients-Asia, director of the CCCMPHIE Zhang Zhong Peng saidthat the forecast for the full year health foods imports and exports, will be dependenton the global control of the pandemic. If the pandemic could be effectively controlled inthe second half of the year, there is a likelihood that the scale of the full year importsand exports will remain the same as last year.
"Right now, because the pandemic has broke out in Europe and the US, the factories inEurope and the US have stopped manufacturing and that there is a lack of factories whichare operating. This has affected the usual product supply, and will also affect the import andexport of raw materials and finished 'products."
In China, he said that provinces such as Zhejiang, jiangsu, and Guangdong were seeingproduction get back up to speed.
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