You're right about Chinese produce. They produce some exotic pears.
On the apple side, you'll find Chinese Fujis for the most part, which they produce in great quantity. I'm not sure of the import figures to Canada, because they had a trial export period of time when the amounts weren't that great.
The biggest impact to date from China has been the takeover of the Far East markets—Hong Kong, Singapore, and so on. They've taken them away from North American suppliers. We used to send a few apples there from B.C., but Washington State was the biggest supplier. That's why we're seeing the suppliers' excess product, which they haven't made the adjustments for, coming across the border into Canada, often at dumped prices.
What is our fear with China? I know they have increased exports. But at the same time, the word coming out of China is that they now have a huge economic engine. They have an emerging middle class, which wasn't there before. They have greater wealth in the hands of Chinese. They also have a family policy now that allows two children, so the population is increasing by seven million per year. Between the better economic situation and the increasing population, the Chinese will have more disposable income to purchase healthier foods, including apples. They will be consuming a lot of their own country's production increase.
Our neighbours to the south published a very interesting article of their analysis of the Chinese situation. So we hope that is going to happen.