South Korea: Fruit Juice
Korea is an excellent market for American fruit juices. Local fruits are mainly targeting fresh table fruit market, which makes Korea’s well established juice processing industry further rely on imported juices to bottle fruit juice and other beverage products. In addition, Korean consumer’s diversified taste and demand for premium quality juices are generating increased demand for imported juice products in retail packaging. The United States remained the leading exporter of fruit juices to Korea in 2013 by accounting for over 49 percent of the $182 million of fruit juices that Korea imported. Orange, grape and apple juice have been the leading products that the United States exported to Korea. However, specialty fruit juices such as grapefruit, blueberry and cranberry are likely to see strong export growth to Korea in the coming year.
