BLACK PEPPER

Hundreds of years ago, traders considered black pepper the king of spices. Called “black gold,” it was one of the very first items of commerce between India and Europe. It was so valuable that entire expeditions were made in hopes of transporting more back to Europe as quickly as possible.Today, black pepper can be found in every kitchen cabinet, but it still deserves some royal recognition. Black pepper is used to make black pepper oil, an essential oil with an incredible list of powerful us.

Depending on the world supply, demand for pepper and timely market prices, most of key pepper producing, exporting and importing countries participate in both export and import of pepper.

Today the pepper trade encompasses the whole world with Western Europe, United States, Japan and Korea being the biggest consumers. The main pepper producing countries are Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Malaysia, China and Sri Lanka.
In recent years, Cambodia has entered the pepper world market, mainly channelling through informal export in form of raw material to pepper trading enterprises of Vietnam, at which raw pepper is processed for re-exporting to the world market.

Trading pepper is one of the most active business in spices products. However, sometimes market did not depend on supply and demand but speculating, rumours or activities from some big game players. Vietnampepperdesk aims to update daily news about Vietnam pepper market, price for buyers, brokers and people relating in pepper business.