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The statistics from Yantai Customs showed that Yantai's wine imports were 9.279 million liters in volume and 6.91 million dollars in value in the first season of 2008, up 96.1% and 1.3 time over that of the same period of last year.
Yantai's wine imports from Chile, Argentina and EU separately were 4.752 million liters , 2.356 million liters and 2.006 million liters, up 1.1 times, 23.5 times and 43.4%. The average price of Yantai wine imports was 0.75 dollar/liter, up 17.3% over the same period.
The main imported variety of wine was bulk wine which was packed in 2-liter containers or bigger containers. In the first season of 2008, Yantai imported wine by these packings for 9.215 million liters, up 96.4%, accounting for 99.3% of total imports. In addition, the imports of wine packing in small-containers were 58 thousand liters, up 42.2%.
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