According to Spain's "Abecedarian" website reported on December 7, Spain is ready to send the first batch of national almonds to China, is expected to send 15 containers.

Spain Dcoop general manager Rafael Sanchez de Puerta said in an interview with Abeysai newspaper, is currently preparing containers in order to "as soon as possible" the product to China.

The report said that the shipment of Spanish almonds to China is a milestone in international trade (Spain). In March of this year, during the visit of Spanish Prime Minister Alexis Sanchez to China, the two governments agreed on the export of almonds and persimmons from Spain to China.

Negotiations on the documents for Spain's almond exports to China began in October 2017, and since then the department has worked with China's General Administration of Customs on a series of technical information exchanges that culminated in the signing of an agreement on export quarantine, according to a news release from Spain's agriculture department at the time.

For the Spanish government, the export quarantine agreement with China allowing the export of almonds (and persimmons) to China is intended to respond to the strong interest shown by Spanish almond producers in importing their products into the Chinese market, the report said. "China is an important target in the strategy to expand almond production. It is estimated that about 50,000 tons of almonds will be exported to China in 2025." Spain's agriculture department said.

This export opportunity "will benefit this crop spread throughout almost all regions of Spain," especially the autonomous community of Andalusia.

Currently, only Andalusia's Dcoop and a Catalan company publicly stated in November that they had been authorized to export almonds to China.

Dcoop aims to sell more and more of its products abroad, the report said. "We are working to ensure that Spanish almonds are sold more and more on the international market." Sanchez de Puerta said.

He noted that Spanish almonds face stiff competition from California almonds in the United States.