China exported 5,227.02 tons of dried chili peppers (unground dried chili peppers)in December 2021, an increase of 16.16% from the previous month and increase of 2.07% comparing with last year, the export value was 13.5372 million US dollars with an increase of 2.06% of last year.The average export price was USD2589.84/ton.

The top ten countries who were importing from China in Dec. 2021 are Malaysia, Mexico, Thailand, Indonesia, the United States, Japan, Italy, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore.The import volume of Thailand, the United States and Japan decreased from the previous month and the import volume of most other countries increased from the previous month.

The export volume in December in 2021 increased compared with the same period last year.

The top three provinces in China of exporting dried red pepper are: Shandong Province, Henan Province, and Hebei Province. In December, only Henan Province's export volume decreased slightly compared with November, while the import volume of other provinces increased. Judging from the year-on-year data, the export volume of dried peppers in various provinces also increased in December, and only Shandong and Yunnan provinces had a slight decrease.

In December 2021, China imported 26,800 tons of dried chili peppers, an increase of 4.73% from the previous month and an increase of 82.87% from the previous year. The import value was US$53.745 million, a decrease of 0.41% from the previous month and an increase of 37.54% from the previous year. The price is USD2014.51/ton.

In December, Indian pepper was still the most important red chilli supplier in China, although the import volume only increased by 1.29% from the previous month.Owing to the price of chili peppers in cold storage in India has been falling down from mid-October to mid-November, some importers have bought a large number of low-priced sources. At this stage, China's domestic three cherry peppers are in a stage of strong growth, and the price is constantly breaking high. In contrast, the domestic market demand has indeed shifted to Indian peppers, which further enhances importers to buy at low prices from India.So the import volume in December increased compared with the previous month.

The export volume and import volume of dried peppers in December both increased slightly compared with November, and the gap between import volume and export volume is still large. Looking at the year of 2021, March, April and May were the peak periods for the importing Indian peppers.While the import volume in October, November and December was also high. At this time, imported cold storage peppers are the most important. Overall import volume of Indian peppers this year is very large.