Season calendar
China onion export season
China onion export season
China ships onions April–July, with March and August–September at the shoulders.
- Ships
- April–July
- March, August–September at the shoulders
- Lands
- Not published
- No lane page covers this origin yet.
| Stage | Month |
|---|---|
| Ships out of China | Ships april–july peak · march, august–september shoulder |
Load ports Qingdao, Shanghai, and Shenzhen
Roughly April to July, into the gap between the Northern Hemisphere’s stored crop running out and its new one being lifted. The volume goes to Southeast Asia, Japan and Korea on short lanes.
Onions are a storage crop sold on timing, so the exposure is the same as Egypt’s: a shipment three weeks late lands into a market somebody else has already supplied. The difference is that China can ship again the following week, which makes this the row where a missed arrival is a margin problem rather than a lost season.
Last reviewed August 2026. Editorial ranges for a normal year, not a published schedule. Weather moves them, sometimes by weeks.
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