"The new oranges road" - Italian citrus export to China

Across the world, Italy is one of the top producers of citrus fruit. Italian oranges, clementines, mandarins, lemons are famous all around the world and are exported as fresh fruit or as processed, for example as fruit juice. After a brief look to the actual global citrus market and some forecasts about 2018/2019 trends, this work presents the EU regulations and the international standards and guidelines of the Codex Alimentarius on sanitary measures and market standards about food export and in particular citrus fruit export. Italian citrus export to China is the focus, particular attention is given to the “PROTOCOL ON PHYTOSANITARY REQUIREMENTS FOR THE EXPORT OF FRESH CITRUS FRUITS FROM ITALY TO CHINA” drew up in 2018. In the last chapter, the Chinese version of the protocol is analysed from a morphological point of view.