WORLD TRADE IN OLIVE OIL AND TABLE OLIVES

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So far this 2023/2024 crop year, imports of olive oil increased by 1.2% while imports of table olives increased by 12.3%.

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 596510 tonnes (+1.2%, 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 increased by 1.2% in the main markets, Australia (-19.7%), Brazil (-13.9%), Canada (+2.7%), China (-61.5%), Japan (-19.7%), United States (+0.9%) and the extra-EU (+35.4%), 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 21458 22975 27257 27374 22446 21716 17435 22866 -19.7
BRAZIL 58644 67022 79520 82827 73600 71787 61807 67661 -13.9
CANADA 34342 34287 42539 48017 42203 37792 38799 38644 2.7
CHINA 26667 31094 35222 33550 31744 27423 10556 27961 -61.5
JAPAN 39528 48637 52407 43522 44418 37755 30307 41972 -19.7
USA 231008 253469 285845 301206 303571 273244 275605 268851 0.9
Extra-EU 145295 114433 194378 140232 118298 119677 162002 133184 35.4
Total 556941 571918 717168 676729 636280 589395 596510 601141 1.2

Imports mainly came from Spain with a share of 26.9% of all imports, followed by Tunisia with 26%, Italy with 19.2%, Portugal with 6.9%, Türkiye with 6.7%, and Argentina with 3.5%.

2017/2018 2018/2019 2019/2020 2020/2021 2021/2022 2022/2023 2023/2024 %Share %Variation rates
SPAIN 151194 192929 186981 187323 219014 180387 160528 26.9 -11
TUNISIA 137852 115369 242211 200279 152211 118114 154920 26.0 31.2
ITALY 118898 123128 126945 135462 127643 117330 114509 19.2 -2.4
PORTUGAL 37653 46845 76528 74157 52994 50241 41162 6.9 -18.1
TÜRKIYE 39367 24522 23922 18339 19706 58171 39825 6.7 -31.5
ARGENTINA 17750 10213 15391 16158 18308 15295 20999 3.5 37.3
GREECE 12502 13576 13009 13374 12967 16241 10431 1.7 -35.8
CHILE 9339 9261 8460 10414 11773 6189 10447 1.8 68.8
MOROCCO 4579 18865 8959 8322 11265 4696 8214 1.4 74.9
SYRIA 15743 7042 2291 2859 2287 5881 9731 1.6 65.5
LEBANON 2193 2016 2409 2631 1986 2976 4860 0.8 63.3
ISRAEL 643 523 1063 791 1068 1306 1766 0.3 35.2
UNITED KINGDOM 1990 1938 1812 1097 840 734 1006 0.2 36.9
AUSTRALIA 1607 686 941 393 705 1770 1154 0.2 -34.8
PERU 353 803 2775 1472 508 2618 1323 0.2 -49.5
Others 5277 4201 3472 3657 3005 7447 15634 2.6 110
Total 556941 571918 717168 676729 636280 589395 596510 100.0 1.2

In terms of volumes by product category, 76.2% of total imports were under code 15.09.10 (virgin olive oil), followed by imports under 15.09.90 (olive oil) with 17.1% and the remaining 6.7% 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 109078 51451 14521 175050
TUNISIA 142689 12231 16695 171615
ITALY 95220 19289 5214 119724
TÜRKIYE 29214 10611 3215 43040
PORTUGAL 32561 8601 42 41204
ARGENTINA 20273 726 60 21059
GREECE 8339 2092 204 10635
CHILE 10282 165 167 10614
MOROCCO 8115 100 1931 10145
SYRIA 9622 110 82 9814
EGYPT 8273 44 0 8317
LEBANON 3929 931 0 4860
ALBANIA 2058 169 209 2436
ISRAEL 846 920 0 1766
PERU 1304 19 0 1323
AUSTRALIA 1121 33 0 1154
USA 879 228 11 1119
UNITED KINGDOM 488 518 29 1035
OTHERS 2787 1196 432 4415
TOTAL 487075 109435 42814 639325
* 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 14884 14216 15140 13339 16944 15441 13875 15390 14904 10.9
BRAZIL 95186 90598 96992 100947 112344 99440 102465 106156 100516 3.6
CANADA 23583 26110 26400 27588 33089 30018 26964 28120 27734 4.3
Extra-EU 80671 94766 94390 94271 98654 96144 91134 133666 97962 46.7
USA 117233 113685 131341 120175 120572 122258 134264 130641 123771 -2.7
Total 331556 339375 364263 356320 381603 363301 368702 413973 364887 12.3

In general, imports increased in the main markets, Australia (+10.9%), Brazil (+3.6%), Canada (+4.3%), United States (-2.7%) and the extra-EU (+46.7%), 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 85892 81745 74232 73686 87842 61703 14.9 -29.8
ARGENTINA 59706 52703 51582 63459 46858 78013 18.8 66.5
MOROCCO 56816 51059 54723 59314 46138 41725 10.1 -9.6
GREECE 43053 39987 49917 52192 46579 47827 11.6 2.7
TÜRKIYE 36213 33420 34619 39407 36721 30651 7.4 -16.5
PERU 19506 21947 24497 22505 30847 14850 3.6 -51.9
EGYPT 36835 46016 62610 21044 40577 97382 23.5 140
ITALY 7574 8193 9201 9776 9920 10614 2.6 7
ALBANIA 4910 5080 8146 8083 10112 10173 2.5 0.6
Others 13759 16170 12076 13833 13108 21035 5.1 60.5
Total 364263 356320 381603 363301 368702 413973 100.0 12.3

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 1561 2536
April (t) 2324 2225 2160 2178 2861 4203 2366 1403 2533 2473
May (t) 3120 2428 2826 2777 4260 3614 2555 2526 3590 3077
June (t) 2385 1786 3397 2583 4876 2264 2070 1770 2474 2623
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 17645 30384

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 6939 4979 70 11988
ITALY 2373 1576 133 4083
TÜRKIYE 359 82 1 442
GREECE 324 109 6 439
LEBANON 278 119 0 397
USA 1 142 0 143
OTHERS 107 45 1 153
TOTAL 10382 7053 211 17645
* 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 6933 6106
June (t) 5158 3972 4151 3972 4808 5324 5584 7257 8996 4097 7782 5555
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 62210 80274

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 29275 7554 41 36870
SPAIN 10029 564 205 10798
ARGENTINA 3992 628 0 4619
CHILE 4114 0 0 4114
ITALY 3392 97 99 3588
TUNISIA 1117 0 0 1117
TÜRKIYE 476 0 59 535
URUGUAY 222 0 0 222
GREECE 166 0 0 166
LEBANON 102 0 0 102
EGYPT 63 0 0 63
OTHERS 0 16 0 16
TOTAL 52948 8859 403 62210
* 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 4129 4401
May (t) 3866 4228 3660 4071 3622 3988 7405 8361 4703 4221 5223 4850
June (t) 4810 3349 3619 2721 4713 3026 4463 5483 8627 4261 4913 4544
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 4130 3968
December (t-1) 2663 3070 3192 2884 2888 4218 4182 5901 3210 3862 3453 3593
Total 41955 38917 41893 40736 47967 47141 58236 58972 54299 48998 39893 47183

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 7995 3925 465 12385
ITALY 10005 993 381 11378
TUNISIA 7725 635 65 8425
TÜRKIYE 1191 972 161 2324
GREECE 1881 4 21 1905
USA 865 81 1 947
LEBANON 633 211 0 844
MOROCCO 317 4 0 321
PORTUGAL 107 214 0 321
ARGENTINA 240 1 0 241
ALGERIA 135 42 0 178
AZERBAIJAN 152 0 0 152
CHILE 141 0 0 142
OTHERS 272 58 1 331
TOTAL 31659 7140 1094 39893
* 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 1639 2910
June (t) 4032 4139 2216 2335 4143 3252 5730 3539 3424 2178 1472 3315
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 12776 41651

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 7071 2361 1923 11355
ITALY 694 73 298 1065
AUSTRALIA 173 0 0 173
UNITED KINGDOM 0 70 0 70
OTHERS 96 18 0 114
TOTAL 8034 2522 2220 12776
* 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 6231 5687
June (t) 4603 4896 4813 5037 5786 8549 6716 5239 3570 5073 5428
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 31991 58696

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 12907 4845 1284 19037
ITALY 8093 1562 274 9929
TÜRKIYE 2263 116 110 2489
GREECE 195 7 8 210
AUSTRALIA 93 1 0 95
CHILE 86 0 0 86
TUNISIA 70 1 9 80
OTHERS 56 10 0 66
TOTAL 23764 6543 1685 31991
* 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 43162 34996
June (t) 31445 32210 26623 26137 29734 45347 35544 45645 22916 35766 33137
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 293191 350131

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 38371 25766 23856 10919 156 10418 62384 47103 109487
ITALY 66570 4092 14332 655 999 3032 81901 7779 89680
TUNISIA 9530 26909 807 7120 21 163 10359 34192 44550
TÜRKIYE 3929 2558 2975 4420 10 2390 6914 9368 16281
ARGENTINA 409 7988 72 0 0 60 482 8048 8530
GREECE 4868 864 1482 486 76 94 6426 1444 7870
PORTUGAL 1895 1249 813 18 0 1 2708 1268 3976
CHILE 1084 2339 148 0 8 0 1240 2339 3579
MOROCCO 955 1709 2 0 0 0 957 1709 2666
LEBANON 1365 254 339 34 0 0 1704 288 1992
ISRAEL 583 189 134 777 0 0 717 967 1684
MEXICO 215 0 596 0 0 0 811 0 811
AUSTRALIA 0 762 0 0 0 0 0 762 762
OTHERS 341 650 119 56 59 98 519 804 1322
TOTAL 130116 75328 45676 24485 1330 16256 177122 116069 293191
* 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 23974
April (t) 18284 14917 32506 21271 22032 11914 26894
May (t) 21581 16535 31313 15450 17554 14034 19687
June (t) 15743 12449 27567 12919 14685 17304 20902
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 181617

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 97329 3669 16437 117435
TÜRKIYE 18437 2046 485 20968
SYRIA 9544 103 82 9730
EGYPT 8099 42 0 8141
ARGENTINA 7636 25 0 7662
MOROCCO 5131 93 1931 7155
CHILE 2510 16 159 2685
ALBANIA 1887 169 209 2265
LEBANON 1295 229 0 1524
PERU 1123 0 0 1123
UNITED KINGDOM 487 442 29 958
OTHERS 1368 323 283 1973
TOTAL 154845 7156 19615 181617
* 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 84535
March (t) 81625 91677 112300 124620 113591 95308 80220
April (t) 75974 89318 102922 97284 106537 73012 81071
May (t) 86763 82703 93860 110668 126210 89846 83864
June (t) 93063 85711 97589 96352 104896 81991 24391
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 666635

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 265666 52104 41674 359445
PORTUGAL 81470 22366 14514 118350
ITALY 68077 8510 17936 94523
GREECE 45952 4201 21954 72107
FRANCE 6659 667 225 7552
BELGIUM 2712 527 70 3309
GERMANY 2007 1036 246 3288
ROMANIA 1766 3 0 1768
NETHERLANDS 686 752 218 1655
OTHERS 2815 1354 468 4638
TOTAL 477809 91520 97306 666635
* 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.

Latest update: Sun Aug 18 17:40:16 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. Data for the last month may not be available.

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).