JAPAN has closed its imports of olive oil and olive pomace oil for the 2016/17 crop year at 56 853 t, which is up by 0.2% compared to last year. Graph I tracks the movements in this market, which saw a rise in import volumes as of the 1997/98 crop year, as a result of the promotion campaigns that the IOC began in 1991. Ten years later, imports underwent another significant increase, reaching their top levels in the 2014/15 crop year, at almost ...
