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Traverse City, Mich.-based North Bay Produce Inc. has partnered with Guatemalan farm to bring imports of French green beans, snow peas, sugar snap peas, and Brussels sprouts to North American customers.

Paramus, N.J.-based Classic Harvest has added Chris DeSana as senior director of sales for deciduous fruit.

The final 2019 shipments of Zespri’s New Zealand kiwifruit crop were heading to Asian markets in December, putting an exclamation point on a season that saw SunGold shipments exceed Zespri Green for the first time.

With overwhelming bipartisan support, the House of Representatives passed the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement with a vote of 385-41, setting up a vote in the Senate early next year.

Retaliatory trade tariffs continue to hurt U.S. fruit exports.

Produce Lovers, a vertically-integrated grower that ships blueberries from the Mexican state of Jalisco, is shipping conventional and organic berries through mid-June.

Avocados are kind of a big deal. We all knew that, of course, but take a peek at the chart below and you will see it in visual terms.

The winter fruit season has barely begun and public unrest and a strike at Chilean ports is not holding back fruit exports so far, Chilean fruit export sources report.

The Packer’s Global Organic Produce Expo — GOPEX — is providing attendees with a behind-the-scenes look at PortMiami, a hub of international trade and commerce.

The U.S. and China have reached a “phase one” trade deal that takes additional escalation of tariffs by both countries off the table but is lacking specifics on when existing tariffs U.S. fresh produce will be removed.