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Business: Morocco’s attraction to Chinese tea makes it its biggest customerF

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Posted On 1 September 2024

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Moroccans love a good cup of tea. Mint tea is their favorite, and it is often prepared by first brewing green tea and then soaking mint leaves in it and adding sugar. Where does the green tea come from? China. This year, Morocco has become China’s biggest destination of tea, with the kingdom’s importers spending more than $123 million on the green stuff during the first seven months of 2024, beating other tea-drinking nations like Malaysia and Japan. Morocco now accounts for almost 7% of China’s tea export.

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