Yantai's wine imports increased

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%.