2001 floriculture imports reported to the United Nations

摘要

The 2001 import statistics reported to the United Nations from more than 95 countries show world trade value in dollars of floriculture was 7,907,491,000 dollar, an increase of 1.7 percent over the previous year. Of this amount, 3,990,204,000 dollarwas attributed to fresh cut flowers; 3,222,332,000 dollarto live plants; and 694,955,000 dollar to fresh cut foliage. Trade in cut flowers rose only 0.2 percent in value between 2000 and 2001. Many smaller country markets experienced good growth, but themajor import market, Germany, slumped. The United Kingdom market expanded. Aggressive France overtook the Netherlands and rose to become the world's fourth-largest cut flower import market, (See Chart 1, at right.)