United States of America OLIVE OIL IMPORTS

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1. USA main country indicators

2. World olive oil and olive pomace oil main import countries

2013/2014 2014/2015 2015/2016 2016/2017 2017/2018 2018/2019 Average %Variation Rates
AUSTRALIA 28886 22823 26850 29624 31699 32315 28699 1.9
BRAZIL 73382 67778 50649 60140 76817 86362 69188 12.4
CANADA 41955 38917 41893 40736 47967 47141 43102 -1.7
CHINA 35891 35898 40281 45822 42198 48986 41513 16.1
JAPAN 56218 61904 56738 56884 57166 70640 59925 23.6
RUSSIA 35084 23346 24201 24328 25299 28657 26819 13.3
USA 312341 311174 331370 316759 322199 356183 325004 10.5
Extra-EU 61614 241822 116897 110800 204777 178781 152448 -12.7
Total 645370 803663 688878 685091 808121 849065 746698 5.1

3. Olive oil and olive-pomace oil, percentage world imports (average over 6 crop years)

4. USA olive oil distribution

5. Olive oil and olive pomace oil imports by crop year and country of origin

2012/2013 2013/2014 2014/2015 2015/2016 2016/2017 2017/2018 2018/2019 %Variation Rates
SPAIN 58950 124464 100843 134443 129766 112739 153386 36.1
ITALY 145365 137727 127218 129376 117389 106798 112406 5.3
TUNISIA 35519 15245 45579 26271 15116 40305 29748 -26.2
TURKEY 28729 6701 3544 4014 14681 26635 20768 -22
GREECE 7492 5519 7454 8735 9401 9247 11292 22.1
MOROCCO 6971 4257 9459 10521 3682 4387 8594 95.9
CHILE 4092 4507 5144 5401 6986 6997 6132 -12.4
ARGENTINA 5513 8616 6477 7062 12855 8022 5579 -30.5
PORTUGAL 1263 1252 1106 1230 1215 1896 3976 109.7
LEBANON 1834 1231 1071 1414 1285 1473 1394 -5.4
AUSTRALIA 218 940 952 308 529 790 981 24.1
NETHERLANDS 234 252 290 429 304 334 494 47.7
ISRAEL 350 205 298 549 478 550 458 -16.6
MEXICO 554 415 43 67 204 15 199 1225.3
PERU 194 81 173 173 208 555 192 -65.4
CANADA 348 337 196 314 175 239 90 -62.3
FRANCE 117 168 67 105 369 135 83 -38.7
CYPRUS 21 48 8 84 104 44 38 -15.5
CHINA 6 31 186 16 102 98 36 -62.9
EGYPT 459 66 786 281 1478 587 10 -98.3
Others 600 279 279 577 432 354 327 -7.5
Total 298827 312341 311174 331370 316759 322199 356183 10.5

6. Olive oil and olive pomace oil imports by crop year and month

2012/2013 2013/2014 2014/2015 2015/2016 2016/2017 2017/2018 2018/2019 Average
January (t) 24571 26705 24296 26922 30429 25135 24754 26116
February (t) 19019 17980 27444 22369 20022 23000 26293 22304
March (t) 33207 29815 27063 35723 23209 29692 25869 29226
April (t) 27271 37423 31126 25428 33968 32556 33158 31561
May (t) 19928 23535 25086 34172 28046 28242 28350 26765
June (t) 23851 28792 31445 32210 26623 26137 29734 28399
July (t) 23241 30076 28485 22610 26376 31724 36012 28361
August (t) 28473 20486 23631 34877 31323 27301 28826 27845
September (t) 19162 25852 22061 24525 23264 23661 30822 24193
October (t-1) 28495 23532 23332 28580 22352 27199 34987 26925
November (t-1) 25107 26747 28450 20324 29150 20715 26394 25270
December (t-1) 26504 21399 18756 23628 21996 26836 30983 24300
Total 298828 312341 311174 331370 316759 322199 356183 321265

7. Olive oil imports by quality of product and country of origin (2018/2019)

OLIVE OIL
OLIVE POMACE OIL
150910 VIRGIN OLIVE OIL
150990 OLIVE OIL
151000 OLIVE POMACE OIL
TOTAL BY CONTAINER
TOTAL
Country <18KG >=18kg <18KG >=18KG <18KG >=18KG <18KG >=18KG
SPAIN 54870 51003 19984 22317 1708 3503 76563 76823 153386
ITALY 84829 3401 21207 393 1863 712 107900 4506 112406
TUNISIA 3888 21223 579 4016 0 42 4467 25281 29748
TURKEY 2771 4841 652 11878 40 586 3463 17305 20768
GREECE 8088 2416 624 16 100 47 8812 2480 11292
MOROCCO 591 4180 2 3089 0 732 593 8001 8594
CHILE 437 5695 0 0 0 0 437 5695 6132
ARGENTINA 73 5507 0 0 0 0 73 5507 5579
PORTUGAL 633 2673 655 4 10 0 1299 2677 3976
LEBANON 1334 6 54 0 0 0 1387 6 1394
AUSTRALIA 38 735 39 168 0 0 78 903 981
NETHERLANDS 0 0 0 494 0 0 0 494 494
ISRAEL 311 14 50 84 0 0 361 98 458
MEXICO 169 19 7 4 0 0 176 23 199
PERU 0 192 0 0 0 0 0 192 192
OTHERS 266 56 114 55 9 84 389 195 584
TOTAL 158299 101961 43967 42518 3732 5705 205998 150185 356183
* Source: Own elaboration based on United States Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service

8. Olive oil and olive pomace oil imports by container (%)

9. Olive oil imports to USA. 2018/2019 crop year

Contact: International Olive Council - Economic and Promotion Unit - Economic Research and Statistics Department https://www.internationaloliveoil.org/

  1. IOC own elaboration based on United States Department of Agriculture Foreign Agriculture Service and other sources
    Some of the data are subject to revisions
    150910 - (Virgin Olive Oil)
    150990 - (Olive + Refined Oil)
    151000 - (Olive Pomace Oil).
    Olive crop year means the period from 1 October of year t to 30 September of year t+1 for olive oil↩

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2018/2019 crop year