In what is seen as a threat to Australia's apple industry, the first container of imported Chinese apples arrived Sunday to be sold to local in the coming days.

But the bad news for local apple farmers does not stop there, Apple and Pear Australia, the importer of the Chinese apples said, more shipments are scheduled to arrive this week to compete with locally-grown apples.

Peter Darley, chairman of the New South Wales Farmers' Horticultural Committee and Orange district orchadist, condemn the importation and are calling on Australians not to buy the Chinese fujis.

He told a press conference that many big retailers are symphatising with them and have agreed not to sell those imported apples.

Darley said, "Woolworths, Coles and Aldi have suggested they will not stock those apples so it's probably possibly small retailers or large fruit barns, but I'm sort of thinking that maybe this will be a program for the Chinese New Year of course but if the consumer supports us, don't buy them."

"If they have the Great Wall on them you've got a choice, don't buy them."

He also disclosed that the importers of the apples did not specify where the fruits came from.

"On the sticker they have the Great Wall, there is no mention of China whatsoever on that apple and if the retailer is not showing country of origin on the sale of that fruit it is illegal, they must show country of origin, we are a little bit concerned that the sticker is only declaring the Great Wall."

Australia is importing Chinese apples for the first time since the 1920s, after the Biosecurity Australia approved the importation in 2010.