WORLD TRADE IN OLIVE OIL AND TABLE OLIVES

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So far this 2023/2024 crop year, imports of olive oil decreased by decreased by 6.3% while imports of table olives increased by 10.6%.

Seven markets represent around 80% of the imports of olive oils and virgin olive oils around the world, the United States with 35%, the European Union with 17%, Brazil with 8%, Japan with 6%, Canada with 5%, China with 4% and Australia with 3%.

So far this 2023/2024 crop year, imports of olive oils and virgin olive oils in the top seven markets reached 444533 tonnes (-6.3%, compared to the same period previous crop year).

The table below shows the trade in the first months of the current crop year (2023/2024). In general, imports decrease in the main markets, Australia (-34.5%), Brazil (-24.2%), Canada (-1.4%), China (-66.6%), Japan (-32.1%), United States (-9.6%) and the extra-EU (+42.7%), compared to the same period the previous crop year.

2017/2018 2018/2019 2019/2020 2020/2021 2021/2022 2022/2023 2023/2024 Average %Variation Rates
AUSTRALIA 15295 17723 18140 21625 17962 17481 11458 17229 -34.5
BRAZIL 47767 55034 65936 66757 55701 62423 47342 54824 -24.2
CANADA 26262 27352 30744 34374 29004 29413 29003 28845 -1.4
CHINA 20684 24955 26468 26226 26501 23792 7954 22409 -66.6
JAPAN 29671 37240 38755 32813 34946 28726 19514 31228 -32.1
USA 178760 196790 201488 226253 208538 223741 202231 201510 -9.6
Extra-EU 112015 92005 137404 116448 89847 89012 127031 102369 42.7
Total 430454 451099 518935 524496 462500 474587 444533 458415 -6.3

Imports mainly came from Spain with a share of 25.8% of all imports, followed by Tunisia with 24.6%, Italy with 19.3%, Portugal with 7%, Türkiye with 7.4%, and Argentina with 4.3%.

2017/2018 2018/2019 2019/2020 2020/2021 2021/2022 2022/2023 2023/2024 %Share %Variation rates
SPAIN 113489 146708 141948 136675 157356 146890 114761 25.8 -21.9
TUNISIA 103261 91841 159506 162358 111259 92635 109412 24.6 18.1
ITALY 92035 96476 92001 100360 90804 94142 85591 19.3 -9.1
PORTUGAL 30849 38858 57578 59723 39790 45197 31329 7.0 -30.7
ARGENTINA 16750 9225 13325 14245 16060 13651 19121 4.3 40.1
TÜRKIYE 32769 20721 18458 15138 14961 47192 33084 7.4 -29.9
CHILE 8111 8371 7457 9731 10461 5203 9645 2.2 85.4
GREECE 8626 10395 10237 10143 9057 12126 7899 1.8 -34.9
MOROCCO 2610 14036 6375 6236 5516 3444 5919 1.3 71.8
LEBANON 1719 1669 2000 2196 1631 2536 3766 0.8 48.5
ISRAEL 587 453 1020 753 990 1184 1614 0.4 36.3
SYRIA 12081 6574 2025 2035 782 3036 7690 1.7 153.3
UNITED KINGDOM 1523 1634 1278 908 688 595 803 0.2 35
AUSTRALIA 1377 634 862 285 612 977 1105 0.2 13.1
Others 4666 3504 4867 3710 2533 5780 12794 2.9 121.4
Total 430454 451099 518935 524496 462500 474587 444533 100.0 -6.3

In terms of volumes by product category, 76.9% of total imports were under code 15.09.10 (virgin olive oil), followed by imports under 15.09.90 (olive oil) with 16.8% and the remaining 6.3% under 15.10.00 (olive pomace oil).

OLIVE OIL
OLIVE POMACE OIL
Country 150910 VIRGIN OLIVE OIL 150990 OLIVE OIL 151000 OLIVE POMACE OIL TOTAL
SPAIN 77613 37148 10530 125291
TUNISIA 101564 7849 11457 120870
ITALY 71719 13872 2993 88584
TÜRKIYE 24524 8560 2266 35350
PORTUGAL 24893 6436 16 31345
ARGENTINA 18548 573 60 19181
CHILE 9481 165 167 9813
GREECE 6460 1439 179 8078
SYRIA 7605 84 0 7690
MOROCCO 5824 95 1691 7610
EGYPT 5625 42 0 5667
LEBANON 3087 679 0 3767
ALBANIA 1733 133 149 2015
ISRAEL 803 811 0 1614
PERU 1126 19 0 1145
AUSTRALIA 1072 33 0 1105
OTHERS 3360 1560 411 5330
TOTAL 365036 79498 29920 474453
* Own elaboration

As for table olives, five markets represents around 67% of the imports around the world, the United States with 24%, Brazil with 18%, the European Union with 17%, Canada with 5% and Australia with 3%.

The table below shows the trade for table olives in the first months of the current crop year (2023/2024).

2016/2017 2017/2018 2018/2019 2019/2020 2020/2021 2021/2022 2022/2023 2023/2024 Average %Variation Rates
AUSTRALIA 11538 10859 12392 10618 13423 12381 11481 12341 11879 7.5
BRAZIL 75375 71890 79653 83277 97993 77353 82556 82567 81333 0
CANADA 18774 20250 20772 21778 26116 22719 21699 22464 21822 3.5
Extra-EU 61798 73743 74891 75727 79392 75426 71462 109619 77757 53.4
USA 92744 87897 100471 98304 87448 90602 110021 101815 96163 -7.5
Total 260230 264640 288179 289705 304372 278481 297219 328807 288954 10.6

In general, imports increased in the main markets, Australia (+7.5%), Brazil (+0%), Canada (+3.5%), United States (-7.5%) and the extra-EU (+53.4%), compared to the same period the previous crop year.

On the other hand, imports of table olives mainly came from Spain, Argentina, Morocco, Greece and Türkiye.

2018/2019 2019/2020 2020/2021 2021/2022 2022/2023 2023/2024 %Share %Variation rates
SPAIN 65413 66294 57790 55698 74390 47507 14.4 -36.1
ARGENTINA 47148 44454 42390 47077 35857 61821 18.8 72.4
MOROCCO 43142 41000 40710 44805 36170 30635 9.3 -15.3
GREECE 34169 32128 38342 39386 36850 37723 11.5 2.4
TÜRKIYE 29781 27509 28532 31926 29882 25949 7.9 -13.2
PERU 16179 19334 22288 18294 27219 12949 3.9 -52.4
EGYPT 32020 34421 51750 17790 30459 77820 23.7 155.5
ITALY 5519 6456 6440 7055 7180 8088 2.5 12.6
ALBANIA 3574 3726 6397 6444 8030 7980 2.4 -0.6
Others 11234 14383 9732 10006 11182 18336 5.6 64
Total 288179 289705 304372 278481 297219 328807 100.0 10.6

1. Australia

1.1 Olive oil and olive pomace oils by crop year and month

2015/2016 2016/2017 2017/2018 2018/2019 2019/2020 2020/2021 2021/2022 2022/2023 2023/2024 Average
January (t) 2066 3517 1475 2349 3130 1943 1968 3220 1474 2349
February (t) 2109 2377 2498 2211 2376 3708 2453 2142 1072 2327
March (t) 2868 2206 2454 2548 2699 2847 2941 2702 1562 2536
April (t) 2324 2225 2160 2178 2861 4203 2366 1403 2533 2473
May (t) 3120 2428 2826 2777 4260 3614 2555 2526 0 2678
June (t) 2385 1786 3397 2583 4876 2264 2070 1770 0 2348
July (t) 1636 2701 4125 3302 4136 3358 3745 1980 0 2776
August (t) 2839 2272 2903 2980 2298 2311 4466 2182 0 2472
September (t) 2699 1773 2961 2769 2732 2901 3435 1768 0 2338
October (t-1) 1718 2295 2844 3344 2275 3353 3385 2687 1916 2646
November (t-1) 1819 3530 2039 3379 2472 2564 2254 3072 1429 2506
December (t-1) 1266 2513 2016 1894 2444 3377 2809 2427 1596 2260
Total 26850 29624 31699 32315 36558 36442 34447 27878 11582 29711

1.2 Olive oil imports by quality of product and country of origin

OLIVE OIL
OLIVE POMACE OIL
Country 150910 VIRGIN OLIVE OIL 150990 OLIVE OIL 151000 OLIVE POMACE OIL TOTAL
SPAIN 4353 3416 2 7771
ITALY 1750 940 114 2803
TÜRKIYE 293 59 1 353
LEBANON 209 98 0 307
GREECE 171 24 6 202
USA 1 69 0 70
OTHERS 40 34 1 76
TOTAL 6819 4639 124 11582
* Source: Own elaboration based on Australian Bureau of Statistics

2. Brazil

2.1 Olive oil and olive pomace oils by crop year and month

2013/2014 2014/2015 2015/2016 2016/2017 2017/2018 2018/2019 2019/2020 2020/2021 2021/2022 2022/2023 2023/2024 Average
January (t) 5164 6367 4395 4363 6103 6516 8938 9220 7150 7736 6779 6612
February (t) 5215 5517 3169 3931 6442 8022 8861 7230 6200 9011 5942 6322
March (t) 6747 6792 2660 5398 8383 8849 11911 9491 9809 10174 7996 8019
April (t) 5281 4769 4080 4609 7079 8794 9277 7355 8222 4400 7692 6505
May (t) 5110 2781 3915 4496 6124 6699 8038 8859 8913 5297 0 5476
June (t) 5158 3972 4151 3972 4808 5324 5584 7257 8996 4097 0 4847
July (t) 6416 4614 4735 4244 5776 5879 8862 7185 9436 5309 0 5678
August (t) 5759 5267 5193 4787 5279 7374 7237 9607 9355 7474 0 6121
September (t) 6061 4595 5278 4610 6816 5882 8292 6868 10951 6500 0 5987
October (t-1) 9075 9585 5530 5233 5444 8246 8334 11052 8138 8488 6810 7812
November (t-1) 6240 7270 4854 6844 7285 8468 11000 12250 8896 12979 6226 8392
December (t-1) 7157 6249 2690 7653 7276 6310 7845 10356 7466 9772 6050 7166
Total 73382 67778 50649 60140 76817 86362 104179 106730 103531 91239 47495 78936

2.2 Olive oil imports by quality of product and country of origin

OLIVE OIL
OLIVE POMACE OIL
Country 150910 VIRGIN OLIVE OIL 150990 OLIVE OIL 151000 OLIVE POMACE OIL TOTAL
PORTUGAL 22468 5573 15 28056
SPAIN 7702 352 76 8130
CHILE 3579 0 0 3579
ARGENTINA 3048 475 0 3523
ITALY 2562 80 61 2703
TUNISIA 716 0 0 716
TÜRKIYE 313 0 0 313
URUGUAY 200 0 0 200
GREECE 129 0 0 129
LEBANON 87 0 0 87
OTHERS 42 16 0 58
TOTAL 40847 6495 153 47495
* Source: Own elaboration based on Ministerio do Desenvolvimento, Industria e Comercio Exterior, Brasil

3. Canada

3.1 Olive oil and olive pomace oils by crop year and month

2013/2014 2014/2015 2015/2016 2016/2017 2017/2018 2018/2019 2019/2020 2020/2021 2021/2022 2022/2023 2023/2024 Average
January (t) 3648 2339 3014 3221 3993 3246 4094 5411 4035 3936 3917 3714
February (t) 2786 3007 3835 2841 3287 2779 3223 3543 5375 3486 4457 3511
March (t) 3954 2870 3744 4201 4800 4017 5878 4688 5697 4799 5441 4554
April (t) 5650 4118 3883 3881 4245 4764 5480 4623 4201 3434 4128 4401
May (t) 3866 4228 3660 4071 3622 3988 7405 8361 4703 4221 0 4375
June (t) 4810 3349 3619 2721 4713 3026 4463 5483 8627 4261 0 4098
July (t) 2699 3366 3070 2180 3324 4211 5703 3777 3622 4001 0 3268
August (t) 2683 2395 4484 3152 5338 4814 3339 3153 4647 3396 0 3400
September (t) 2352 2934 3441 3129 4240 3387 5949 3129 3359 3116 0 3185
October (t-1) 3999 3983 3079 3580 4297 4663 4516 5756 3196 4845 4229 4195
November (t-1) 2846 3258 2871 4873 3219 4029 4002 5147 3629 5641 4116 3967
December (t-1) 2663 3070 3192 2884 2888 4218 4182 5901 3210 3862 3459 3593
Total 41955 38917 41893 40736 47967 47141 58236 58972 54299 48998 29748 46260

3.2 Olive oil imports by quality of product and country of origin

OLIVE OIL
OLIVE POMACE OIL
Country 150910 VIRGIN OLIVE OIL 150990 OLIVE OIL 151000 OLIVE POMACE OIL TOTAL
SPAIN 5986 3120 420 9526
ITALY 7613 661 120 8395
TUNISIA 4939 488 22 5449
TÜRKIYE 886 969 161 2016
GREECE 1597 1 20 1618
USA 656 74 1 731
LEBANON 490 147 0 638
MOROCCO 260 3 0 263
PORTUGAL 81 176 0 257
ARGENTINA 239 1 0 240
CHILE 132 0 0 132
ALGERIA 112 2 0 114
AZERBAIJAN 107 0 0 107
OTHERS 215 47 1 262
TOTAL 23313 5690 745 29748
* Source: Own elaboration based on Statistics CANADA - International Trade Division

4. China

4.1 Olive oil and olive pomace oils by crop year and month

2013/2014 2014/2015 2015/2016 2016/2017 2017/2018 2018/2019 2019/2020 2020/2021 2021/2022 2022/2023 2023/2024 Average
January (t) 3268 2850 3068 2777 6114 7115 3542 4931 3828 3221 1493 3837
February (t) 1050 1471 1501 1852 852 1520 3542 1974 2931 1692 1171 1778
March (t) 2323 2504 3680 2411 1338 3599 2780 3264 2711 1548 1164 2484
April (t) 2533 2835 2576 2579 1548 3048 2549 3205 2787 2237 679 2416
May (t) 2955 2534 3053 3037 2195 3275 4603 4645 2210 1865 0 2761
June (t) 4032 4139 2216 2335 4143 3252 5730 3539 3424 2178 0 3181
July (t) 4367 4161 4900 4254 3677 4892 5480 5093 7342 2621 0 4253
August (t) 3387 3361 3683 5057 3937 6839 4631 4547 6332 1837 0 3965
September (t) 2327 2450 3264 4027 4143 3805 6366 3954 4657 2771 0 3433
October (t-1) 2609 2411 3107 4189 2722 2496 3204 2588 3156 3448 1951 2898
November (t-1) 3031 3651 3220 8376 3833 4405 6565 5438 5464 7033 1795 4801
December (t-1) 4008 3531 6015 4929 7697 4740 6586 7785 8440 6035 1410 5561
Total 35891 35898 40281 45822 42198 48986 55580 50964 53283 36485 9664 41368

4.2 Olive oil imports by quality of product and country of origin

OLIVE OIL
OLIVE POMACE OIL
Country 150910 VIRGIN OLIVE OIL 150990 OLIVE OIL 151000 OLIVE POMACE OIL TOTAL
SPAIN 5560 1421 1525 8507
ITALY 596 73 185 855
AUSTRALIA 148 0 0 148
UNITED KINGDOM 0 61 0 61
OTHERS 77 17 0 94
TOTAL 6381 1573 1711 9664
* Source: Own elaboration based on China customs

5. Japan

5.1 Olive oil and olive pomace oils by crop year and month

2014/2015 2015/2016 2016/2017 2017/2018 2018/2019 2019/2020 2020/2021 2021/2022 2022/2023 2023/2024 Average
January (t) 4531 3402 4007 4706 5594 4644 3691 6201 4092 2536 4340
February (t) 3474 3916 3034 3664 4489 5126 3688 3557 3839 2111 3690
March (t) 6753 4876 4328 4585 5399 6333 5915 5759 4023 3191 5116
April (t) 6319 5608 4829 4466 7211 6473 4888 4872 4311 3275 5225
May (t) 6550 6437 6697 5128 5832 5508 4429 4366 5697 0 5064
June (t) 4603 4896 4813 5037 5786 8549 6716 5239 3570 0 4921
July (t) 5129 5593 5215 5462 7201 5845 5095 6038 5254 0 5083
August (t) 5474 5401 5689 5480 6822 6338 5882 6965 4682 0 5273
September (t) 5595 5229 5171 5388 6659 5772 5221 5553 5044 0 4963
October (t-1) 4776 4492 3718 4871 5142 4963 4903 4567 5556 3324 4631
November (t-1) 4735 3791 5987 4432 5894 5299 6160 6856 3477 3345 4998
December (t-1) 3965 3097 3395 3946 4610 7189 4478 4514 4508 2905 4261
Total 61904 56738 56884 57166 70640 72038 61065 64488 54051 20687 57566

5.2 Olive oil imports by quality of product and country of origin

OLIVE OIL
OLIVE POMACE OIL
Country 150910 VIRGIN OLIVE OIL 150990 OLIVE OIL 151000 OLIVE POMACE OIL TOTAL
SPAIN 8441 2976 888 12305
ITALY 5292 819 172 6283
TÜRKIYE 1527 99 105 1732
GREECE 144 6 8 158
CHILE 73 0 0 73
AUSTRALIA 70 1 0 71
OTHERS 56 9 0 65
TOTAL 15604 3910 1173 20687
* Source: Own elaboration based on Trade Statistics of Japan - Ministry of Finance

6. Russia

6.1 Olive oil and olive pomace oils by crop year and month

2014/2015 2015/2016 2016/2017 2017/2018 2018/2019 2019/2020 2020/2021 2021/2022 Average
January (t) 1513 1386 1326 1783 1422 1594 2220 2362 1701
February (t) 1216 1765 1800 1746 2186 2123 2789 NA 1946
March (t) 1589 2424 2354 2011 1971 2936 2392 NA 2240
April (t) 1164 2653 2504 1995 2351 3061 3117 NA 2406
May (t) 1127 1736 2326 2432 2253 3067 3540 NA 2354
June (t) 1612 1777 2442 2160 2594 2690 3693 NA 2424
July (t) 1882 2286 1581 2319 2844 2484 2919 NA 2331
August (t) 1485 2469 2192 2341 2602 2700 2793 NA 2369
September (t) 1656 1896 1641 2114 2233 2728 2591 NA 2123
October (t-1) 4272 1786 2141 2255 3059 3412 4156 3227 3039
November (t-1) 3175 2084 2273 2036 2306 2636 3908 3394 2726
December (t-1) 2653 1941 1746 2107 2838 2904 3992 2805 2623
Total 23346 24201 24328 25299 28657 32334 38113 11789 26008

6.2 Olive oil imports by quality of product and country of origin

OLIVE OIL
OLIVE POMACE OIL
Country 150910 VIRGIN OLIVE OIL 150990 OLIVE OIL 151000 OLIVE POMACE OIL TOTAL
SPAIN 2937 845 1729 5511
ITALY 3563 835 797 5195
GREECE 620 7 128 754
TUNISIA 71 23 10 104
PORTUGAL 72 9 1 82
BELARUS 54 2 5 61
TÜRKIYE 30 13 0 43
UKRAINE 19 0 0 19
ALGERIA 12 0 0 12
OTHERS 7 0 0 7
TOTAL 7385 1734 2669 11789
* Source: Own elaboration based on Federal Customs Service of Russia

7. United States of America

7.1 Olive oil and olive pomace oils by crop year and month

2014/2015 2015/2016 2016/2017 2017/2018 2018/2019 2019/2020 2020/2021 2021/2022 2022/2023 2023/2024 Average
January (t) 24296 26922 30429 25135 24754 23870 41415 28712 32843 31094 28947
February (t) 27444 22369 20022 23000 26293 29002 22795 31095 30684 28293 26100
March (t) 27063 35723 23209 29692 25870 32358 29600 32371 38221 36804 31091
April (t) 31126 25428 33968 32556 33158 37219 41050 40531 35302 34096 34443
May (t) 25086 34172 28046 28242 28350 39718 41982 52411 28790 0 30679
June (t) 31445 32210 26623 26137 29734 45347 35544 45645 22916 0 29560
July (t) 28484 22610 26376 31724 36012 35315 23538 33579 35182 0 27282
August (t) 23631 34877 31323 27301 28826 36663 31043 40406 25205 0 27927
September (t) 22061 24525 23264 23661 30822 34369 28502 24950 27766 0 23992
October (t-1) 23332 28580 22352 27199 34987 33225 29340 24668 37568 24902 28615
November (t-1) 28450 20324 29150 20715 26394 22627 33389 32102 32131 29118 27440
December (t-1) 18756 23628 21996 26836 30983 27205 32336 25586 24322 29958 26161
Total 311174 331370 316759 322199 356183 396919 390534 412055 370930 214264 342239

7.2 Olive oil imports by quality of product and country of origin

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 27144 18426 17522 8341 26 7592 44692 34359 79051
ITALY 51224 2680 10805 494 782 1559 62811 4733 67544
TUNISIA 6347 15988 657 4088 0 163 7004 20239 27243
TÜRKIYE 3271 2036 2334 3427 10 1560 5615 7022 12637
ARGENTINA 380 7518 72 0 0 60 453 7578 8031
GREECE 3695 697 1076 329 60 85 4830 1111 5941
CHILE 1050 2285 148 0 8 0 1206 2285 3491
PORTUGAL 1652 663 670 18 0 1 2322 682 3004
MOROCCO 658 1085 0 0 0 0 658 1085 1743
ISRAEL 566 185 132 672 0 0 698 857 1555
LEBANON 1030 169 243 32 0 0 1274 201 1475
AUSTRALIA 0 762 0 0 0 0 0 762 762
MEXICO 186 0 539 0 0 0 725 0 725
OTHERS 308 477 112 37 30 98 448 612 1061
TOTAL 97512 52971 34310 17438 915 11118 132737 81527 214264
* Source: Own elaboration based on United States Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service

8. Extra-EU

8.1 Olive oil and olive pomace oils by crop year and month

2017/2018 2018/2019 2019/2020 2020/2021 2021/2022 2022/2023 2023/2024
January (t) 11372 14470 14561 14955 7073 8401 15998
February (t) 23168 20077 21784 17851 14814 14020 23406
March (t) 23614 18795 38074 20306 15338 13708 23978
April (t) 18284 14917 32506 21271 22032 11914 26876
May (t) 21581 16535 31313 15450 17554 14034 0
June (t) 15743 12449 27567 12919 14685 17304 0
July (t) 13851 12590 23989 8839 11022 20494 0
August (t) 23004 15391 18304 8598 14101 21709 0
September (t) 7449 8553 20349 11837 10765 20176 0
October (t-1) 6659 12950 13337 19880 15419 10879 12462
November (t-1) 17039 15096 11688 22032 9682 9368 15515
December (t-1) 25285 19249 17869 19244 28849 29090 22779
Total 207050 181074 271341 193183 181334 191096 141014

8.2 Olive oil imports by quality of product and country of origin

OLIVE OIL
OLIVE POMACE OIL
Country 150910 VIRGIN OLIVE OIL 150990 OLIVE OIL 151000 OLIVE POMACE OIL TOTAL
TUNISIA 73556 2614 11272 87443
TÜRKIYE 16198 1672 430 18300
SYRIA 7554 78 0 7631
ARGENTINA 7355 25 0 7380
MOROCCO 3818 92 1691 5601
EGYPT 5472 42 0 5513
CHILE 2355 16 159 2530
ALBANIA 1598 133 149 1880
LEBANON 1100 158 0 1259
PERU 1123 0 0 1123
OTHERS 1460 613 280 2353
TOTAL 121588 5444 13983 141014
* IOC own elaboration based on EUROSTAT

9. Intra-EU

9.1 Olive oil and olive pomace oils by crop year and month

2017/2018 2018/2019 2019/2020 2020/2021 2021/2022 2022/2023 2023/2024
January (t) 97626 88766 98847 99173 93384 93796 90316
February (t) 85128 92686 107732 121743 114711 101940 84268
March (t) 81625 91677 112300 124620 113591 95308 80255
April (t) 75974 89318 102922 97284 106537 73012 32158
May (t) 86763 82703 93860 110668 126210 89846 0
June (t) 93063 85711 97589 96352 104896 81991 0
July (t) 87382 98717 100376 87734 91926 70480 0
August (t) 75873 74546 78924 66590 89901 62004 0
September (t) 82583 84168 103740 84574 88632 67934 0
October (t-1) 71037 83337 102196 100627 81894 87072 61748
November (t-1) 86734 87260 100323 107548 98042 102322 75910
December (t-1) 90935 97768 115451 122240 117231 115288 84581
Total 1014723 1056656 1214260 1219154 1226955 1040995 509235

9.2 Olive oil imports by quality of product and country of origin

OLIVE OIL
OLIVE POMACE OIL
Country 150910 VIRGIN OLIVE OIL 150990 OLIVE OIL 151000 OLIVE POMACE OIL TOTAL
SPAIN 194902 40430 30765 266096
PORTUGAL 66520 18731 11718 96969
ITALY 51352 6562 15643 73558
GREECE 35946 3342 16953 56242
FRANCE 5464 522 206 6192
GERMANY 1457 745 180 2382
BELGIUM 1257 319 36 1612
ROMANIA 1419 2 0 1421
NETHERLANDS 398 607 156 1162
OTHERS 2176 1044 382 3602
TOTAL 360891 72305 76040 509235
* IOC own elaboration based on EUROSTAT


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

Some of the data are subject to review. Figures are subject to change or correction without notice.

Lastest update: Thu Jun 27 16:37:46 2024


IOC own elaboration based on Australian Bureau of Statistics, Ministerio do Desenvolvimento, Industria e Comercio Exterior, Brasil, EUROSTAT, Statistics CANADA - International Trade Division, China customs, Trade Statistics of Japan - Ministry of Finance, Federal Customs Service of Russia, United States Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service.

In order to make the historical data comparable the figures have been calculated for the EU-27. The United Kingdom is no longer a Member State of the European Union, however until the end of the transition period, 31 January 2020, it is still part of the EU Customs Union.

Data for Russia is not available as of February 2022.

Extra EU: Imports from outside the EU.↩︎

Intra EU: Imports from inside the EU.↩︎

Some of the data are subject to review. Estimates are subject to change or correction without notice.

Data in tonnes 1t=1000kg=1Mg.

Arima’s automatic procedures have been used to calculate the forecasts.

Olive crop year means the period from 1 October of year t to 30 September of year t+1 for olive oil.

According to the new provisions of the International Agreement on Olive Oil and Table Olives, 2015, which came into force on 1 January 2017, “table olive crop year” means the period of twelve months from 1 September of one year to 31 August of the next.

Harmonized System Codes: Olive oil = 15091020+15091010+15091080+15099000.

15091010 Virgin lampante; 15091020 Extra virgin olive oil; 15091080 Virgin olive oil; 15099000 Other olive oil; 15100010 Crude olive-pomace oil; 15100090 Refined olive-pomace oil;

New codes: Olive oil = 150920+150930+150940+150990

150910 = 150920+150930+150940; 150990 = 150990; 151000 = 151010+151090;

ex-: only table olives should be included ex-070990: fresh or chilled olives (excl. for oil production); ex-071080: olives, uncooked or cooked by steaming or by boiling in water, frozen; ex-071120: olives provisionally preserved, e.g. by sulphur dioxide gas, in brine, in sulphur water or in other preservative solutions, but unsuitable in that state for immediate consumption (excl. for oil production); ex-200190: olives, prepared or preserved by vinegar or acetic acid; 200570: olives, prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid (excl. frozen).