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[Douglas Woodard <dwoodard@becon.org>]

The juices I mentioned seem to be marketed (experimentally at the 
moment) to the carriage trade, the well-heeled. If North Americans tried 
to horn in on the market I expect that the Turks and importers together 
would reduce their prices to whatever it took to maintain market 
dominance. There is a fairly cheap pomegranate juice sold here, Cedar 
brand from Iran, at $2.99 per litre in tetrapacks.

Turkey seems to dominate dried apricots and I see 8 oz. packages in the 
supermarkets for $1.20-1.50, bulk at $3.50 to $4.00 per pound (I presume 
there is less competition in the bulk trade via the Bulk Barn etc.). 
It's been years since I have seen North American canned apricots, and 
since the St. Davids canning plant went out of business all the canned 
peaches are imported from low wage countries. Greece seems to dominate 
there. Morello cherries in glass jars come from Hungary or Poland. North 
American Montmorency cherries are available in 10 lb. buckets for a few 
weeks immediately after the harvest.

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario



On 02/05/2011 7:14 AM, mIEKAL aND wrote:
> What do you mean by price competition..?
>
> On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 11:57 PM, Douglas Woodard<dwoodard@becon.org>  wrote:
> http://www.masoimporting.com
> > Theoretically both could be produced in North America, though under
> > price competition I expect the Turks would have the advantage as with
> > dried apricots.
> >
> > Doug Woodard
> > St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada