BEIJING: India made a strong pitch to expand its steadily rising marketplace for black tea in China via setting up a tea promotion campaign that officers say would assist in scaling up the tea trade between the two countries.
People in China, the place tea originated, principally consumes inexperienced teas with out milk not like black Indian tea.
The Indian Embassy here in affiliation with the Tea Board of India and China Tea Marketing Association held the Indian tea promotion event here from October 23-25.
During the event, top tea consumers and sellers from both the countries met and interacted over the prospects of scaling up tea trade between the two countries.
Anil Kumar Ray, Deputy Chairman of the Tea Board of India, the main Indian tea delegation, informed the media on Tuesday that India final year exported about 9 million tonnes of tea which constituted about 30 in step with cent of China's imports.
The Indian delegation comprising of top tea industry homes visited China to discover the Chinese marketplace and to expand the export base, he stated.
Addressing a seminar attended via tea exporters and importers from both the countries here on Tuesday, Indian Ambassador to China, Gautam Bambawale stated the tea trade between India and China is going again in historical past.
The historical Tea-Horse trade route hooked up Yunnan Province in China to the tea-growing regions of India in West Bengal and Assam, he stated.
Today, China is main manufacturer of inexperienced tea with annual production of 2,550 million kilograms. India is a major manufacturer of black tea with annual production of one,278 million kilograms, he stated.
India is the 3rd biggest tea exporter to China, he stated.
Last year, India exported tea worth USD 25 million to China. The graph is headed upwards as Chinese people begin liking different varieties of tea, he stated.
With consciousness about the medicinal value of the tea, the recognition is rising among the formative years of both the countries.
There are many reports which counsel that China's young people like black tea and black tea-based drinks, he stated.
"Similarly, in India, people are now beginning to like green tea and herbal tea. It is for this reason that we believe that the possibility of exporting Indian tea to China is rising. That is why we are organising this tea promotion event today," he stated.
The Indian delegation has presented five different form of teas from India on the event.
Ray stated India has different sorts of teas, together with the Darjeeling and Sikkim tea.
"China is a very traditional tea drinking nation... they have a very long history of drinking tea expanding to thousands of years," he stated, including that "our teas are new but our varieties are more".
Similarly, exports of Chinese inexperienced tea varieties to India have been additionally rising.
He stated India final year has exported 251 million kilograms of tea. This integrated Russia (50 million kilograms).
Other countries of Indian exports integrated Iran, the UAE, the UK, Pakistan, the USA and Egypt.
China makes about 2500 million kilograms of tea, he stated.
The Chinese tea industry representative reacted undoubtedly to India's pitch for tea exports to China.
Qin Ling, a representative from the Beijing Tea Chamber, informed state-run Global Times on Thursday that "Indian tea producers and exporters are using the European Union product standards. Some Chinese companies' products don't meet those standards."
Wang Qing, chairman of the China Tea Marketing Association, stated that India and China have different classes of tea, and standards do not pose a serious problem for Chinese tea exports.
"The issue is not the standard, China and India have different product structures. China mainly produces strip tea and India mainly produces broken black tea," Wang stated.
Bern Tsang, the industry development guide of Premier's Tea Limited, whose administrative center is based in Hong Kong, stated that he's very positive about the Chinese marketplace.
"Chinese young people are delighted to try new things. As you see, coffee has made it big in China, and mixology tea beverages are emerging too," he stated.
"Indian black tea is the main material to make mixology tea beverages," he informed the paper.
Zhao Gancheng, director of the South Asia Studies Department on the Shanghai Institute for International Studies, stated that India is currently showing the fad of trying to crack the Chinese marketplace.
"India sees the US-China trade war as an opportunity of expanding the Chinese market, increasing the exporting of agricultural products to China. India is hoping to reduce its trade deficit with China, which has long been large," Zhao stated.
If India takes this opportunity to establish interconnection and further expand trade with China, it's surely a win-win scenario for each side, Zhao added.
People in China, the place tea originated, principally consumes inexperienced teas with out milk not like black Indian tea.
The Indian Embassy here in affiliation with the Tea Board of India and China Tea Marketing Association held the Indian tea promotion event here from October 23-25.
During the event, top tea consumers and sellers from both the countries met and interacted over the prospects of scaling up tea trade between the two countries.
Anil Kumar Ray, Deputy Chairman of the Tea Board of India, the main Indian tea delegation, informed the media on Tuesday that India final year exported about 9 million tonnes of tea which constituted about 30 in step with cent of China's imports.
The Indian delegation comprising of top tea industry homes visited China to discover the Chinese marketplace and to expand the export base, he stated.
Addressing a seminar attended via tea exporters and importers from both the countries here on Tuesday, Indian Ambassador to China, Gautam Bambawale stated the tea trade between India and China is going again in historical past.
The historical Tea-Horse trade route hooked up Yunnan Province in China to the tea-growing regions of India in West Bengal and Assam, he stated.
Today, China is main manufacturer of inexperienced tea with annual production of 2,550 million kilograms. India is a major manufacturer of black tea with annual production of one,278 million kilograms, he stated.
India is the 3rd biggest tea exporter to China, he stated.
Last year, India exported tea worth USD 25 million to China. The graph is headed upwards as Chinese people begin liking different varieties of tea, he stated.
With consciousness about the medicinal value of the tea, the recognition is rising among the formative years of both the countries.
There are many reports which counsel that China's young people like black tea and black tea-based drinks, he stated.
"Similarly, in India, people are now beginning to like green tea and herbal tea. It is for this reason that we believe that the possibility of exporting Indian tea to China is rising. That is why we are organising this tea promotion event today," he stated.
The Indian delegation has presented five different form of teas from India on the event.
Ray stated India has different sorts of teas, together with the Darjeeling and Sikkim tea.
"China is a very traditional tea drinking nation... they have a very long history of drinking tea expanding to thousands of years," he stated, including that "our teas are new but our varieties are more".
Similarly, exports of Chinese inexperienced tea varieties to India have been additionally rising.
He stated India final year has exported 251 million kilograms of tea. This integrated Russia (50 million kilograms).
Other countries of Indian exports integrated Iran, the UAE, the UK, Pakistan, the USA and Egypt.
China makes about 2500 million kilograms of tea, he stated.
The Chinese tea industry representative reacted undoubtedly to India's pitch for tea exports to China.
Qin Ling, a representative from the Beijing Tea Chamber, informed state-run Global Times on Thursday that "Indian tea producers and exporters are using the European Union product standards. Some Chinese companies' products don't meet those standards."
Wang Qing, chairman of the China Tea Marketing Association, stated that India and China have different classes of tea, and standards do not pose a serious problem for Chinese tea exports.
"The issue is not the standard, China and India have different product structures. China mainly produces strip tea and India mainly produces broken black tea," Wang stated.
Bern Tsang, the industry development guide of Premier's Tea Limited, whose administrative center is based in Hong Kong, stated that he's very positive about the Chinese marketplace.
"Chinese young people are delighted to try new things. As you see, coffee has made it big in China, and mixology tea beverages are emerging too," he stated.
"Indian black tea is the main material to make mixology tea beverages," he informed the paper.
Zhao Gancheng, director of the South Asia Studies Department on the Shanghai Institute for International Studies, stated that India is currently showing the fad of trying to crack the Chinese marketplace.
"India sees the US-China trade war as an opportunity of expanding the Chinese market, increasing the exporting of agricultural products to China. India is hoping to reduce its trade deficit with China, which has long been large," Zhao stated.
If India takes this opportunity to establish interconnection and further expand trade with China, it's surely a win-win scenario for each side, Zhao added.
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