Peru, USA's blueberry supplier, looks to China as tariffs hit

In Peru's Pisco Desert, rows of blueberry bushes towering as much as two metres high stretch towards the horizon, finally giving way to sand dunes.

- Marco Aquino, Reuters

Traditional blueberries need chilly nights to bring fruit, but genetic innovations have created varieties like Eureka Sunset that can grow in this kind of arid landscape some 250 kilometers (155 miles) south of Lima. For more than a decade the healthy berries have rolled north to US supermarket shelves, but there is a rival buyer in town: China. Growers in Peru are looking for new markets as production rises and their best customer, the United States, is waging a trade tariff war on partners around the world. China has insatiable demand and has built a huge new port near Lima that cuts shipping time across the Pacific in half.