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 1.4% while imports of table olives increased by 9.7%.

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 732386 tonnes (+1.4%, 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 (-2.8%), Brazil (-12%), Canada (+3.9%), China (-47.8%), Japan (-13.4%), United States (+1%) and the extra-EU (+23.8%), 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 28371 29176 33571 33007 30552 25792 25077 29094 -2.8
BRAZIL 69641 80230 95616 99539 92356 84525 74404 81416 -12
CANADA 42772 43218 51533 54812 50368 45032 46793 46370 3.9
CHINA 33896 42368 44721 42137 45010 31530 16444 36515 -47.8
JAPAN 50234 62531 64161 54085 56999 47278 40959 53231 -13.4
USA 287894 316815 357296 353312 375154 331910 335187 329978 1
Extra-EU 174760 139051 232554 156323 142206 156326 193523 159930 23.8
Total 687569 713390 879452 793216 792644 722393 732386 736535 1.4

Imports mainly came from Spain with a share of 27.7% of all imports, followed by Tunisia with 25.1%, Italy with 19.5%, Portugal with 6.5%, Turkey with 7%, and Argentina with 3.4%.

2017/2018 2018/2019 2019/2020 2020/2021 2021/2022 2022/2023 2023/2024 %Share %Variation rates
SPAIN 196450 252248 228149 224981 280354 210281 203237 27.7 -3.3
TUNISIA 163248 137481 293860 222279 182555 144636 183613 25.1 26.9
ITALY 147643 152924 158060 157337 159541 143597 143171 19.5 -0.3
PORTUGAL 43718 55904 97361 88209 63677 58277 47752 6.5 -18.1
TURKEY 42645 28203 26790 22811 26640 76742 51543 7.0 -32.8
ARGENTINA 23613 14709 19346 22017 23662 21999 25204 3.4 14.6
GREECE 14773 16229 15837 16096 15658 19642 12579 1.7 -36
CHILE 12587 10822 11515 12888 14252 10051 14098 1.9 40.3
MOROCCO 7956 24382 11208 10380 13558 7246 9158 1.3 26.4
SYRIA 20405 7928 2893 3776 2766 8043 11237 1.5 39.7
LEBANON 2518 2240 2701 2969 2285 3479 5857 0.8 68.3
ISRAEL 682 543 1092 857 1121 1431 1818 0.2 27.1
PERU 647 1247 3413 2212 998 3745 1604 0.2 -57.2
UNITED KINGDOM 2385 2438 2177 1312 960 926 1241 0.2 34.1
AUSTRALIA 2025 1331 1154 594 947 2376 1430 0.2 -39.8
OTHERS 401 656 550 596 539 185 306 0.0 65.6
Others 5873 4104 3345 3902 3132 9738 18539 2.5 90.4
Total 687569 713390 879452 793216 792644 722393 732386 100.0 1.4

In terms of volumes by product category, 76.3% 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 6.9% 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 139540 63697 17702 220939
TUNISIA 170670 12942 21176 204789
ITALY 119840 23331 6754 149925
TURKEY 37737 13806 4606 56149
PORTUGAL 38055 9697 75 47827
ARGENTINA 24390 815 60 25264
CHILE 13931 167 172 14270
GREECE 10173 2406 364 12943
MOROCCO 9048 110 2659 11817
SYRIA 11068 168 82 11319
EGYPT 10549 261 0 10810
LEBANON 4713 1144 0 5857
ALBANIA 2100 277 209 2586
ISRAEL 865 953 0 1818
PERU 1585 20 0 1604
AUSTRALIA 1396 34 0 1430
UNITED KINGDOM 589 652 58 1300
USA 938 246 16 1199
OTHERS 3152 1322 453 4928
TOTAL 600338 132048 54387 786774
* 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 17597 17260 18487 16330 19818 19129 17405 19480 18188 11.9
BRAZIL 114284 109933 117796 124371 129920 125323 123054 127999 121585 4
CANADA 28662 31337 32324 32172 39667 35461 34012 33451 33386 -1.7
Extra-EU 95840 111512 111413 113641 115836 111476 107369 151633 114840 41.2
USA 146232 141211 171620 146444 159138 157714 163714 156309 155298 -4.5
Total 402614 411253 451640 432959 464379 449104 445554 488872 443297 9.7

In general, imports increased in the main markets, Australia (+11.9%), Brazil (+4%), Canada (-1.7%), United States (-4.5%) and the extra-EU (+41.2%), 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 111638 97232 90886 91976 100716 72956 14.9 -27.6
ARGENTINA 70166 65924 64864 79828 61358 93780 19.2 52.8
MOROCCO 71163 62401 67293 69844 53795 50509 10.3 -6.1
GREECE 52021 48463 61075 64207 58210 57746 11.8 -0.8
TÜRKIYE 41061 38615 39667 44962 42215 35091 7.2 -16.9
PERU 26537 26585 26807 29944 33608 17526 3.6 -47.9
EGYPT 40026 55735 70879 24567 50305 110000 22.5 118.7
ITALY 9177 9844 11879 12623 12500 12839 2.6 2.7
ALBANIA 6179 6517 9867 9757 12025 12201 2.5 1.5
PORTUGAL 6526 6330 4312 5715 6166 4990 1.0 -19.1
MEXICO 7760 6710 7007 5269 7070 11416 2.3 61.5
Others 9386 8604 9842 10413 7586 9816 2.0 29.4
Total 451640 432959 464379 449104 445554 488872 100.0 9.7

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 2512 2627
July (t) 1636 2701 4125 3302 4136 3358 3745 1980 4820 3311
August (t) 2839 2272 2903 2980 2298 2311 4466 2182 2866 2791
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 25368 31242

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 9659 6801 88 16548
ITALY 4187 2486 186 6859
TÜRKIYE 483 126 2 612
GREECE 397 116 14 527
LEBANON 340 126 0 466
USA 1 142 0 144
PERU 65 0 0 65
OTHERS 107 40 1 148
TOTAL 15240 9837 292 25368
* 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 5937 6217
August (t) 5759 5267 5193 4787 5279 7374 7237 9607 9355 7474 6715 6732
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 74862 81424

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 34226 8559 41 42827
SPAIN 12884 671 221 13775
ARGENTINA 4999 717 0 5716
CHILE 5173 0 4 5177
ITALY 4343 145 133 4621
TUNISIA 1514 0 0 1514
TÜRKIYE 539 0 59 597
URUGUAY 225 0 0 225
GREECE 208 0 0 208
LEBANON 102 0 0 103
EGYPT 84 0 0 84
OTHERS 0 16 0 16
TOTAL 64297 10107 458 74862
* 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 5181 4846
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 4051 3637
August (t) 2683 2395 4484 3152 5338 4814 3339 3153 4647 3396 4087 3772
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 47988 47918

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 9650 4670 520 14841
ITALY 12020 1126 417 13562
TUNISIA 9683 778 65 10526
TÜRKIYE 1540 978 161 2679
GREECE 2301 4 21 2325
LEBANON 817 214 0 1031
USA 921 98 2 1021
PORTUGAL 139 252 8 399
MOROCCO 342 14 0 356
ARGENTINA 240 1 0 241
AZERBAIJAN 238 0 0 238
ALGERIA 148 42 0 191
CHILE 184 0 1 185
OTHERS 327 64 2 393
TOTAL 38551 8242 1195 47988
* 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 2710 4500
August (t) 3387 3361 3683 5057 3937 6839 4631 4547 6332 1837 3650 4296
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 19136 42229

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 10162 4569 2325 17056
ITALY 1049 97 367 1513
AUSTRALIA 203 0 0 203
UNITED KINGDOM 0 117 0 117
PORTUGAL 78 0 0 78
GREECE 56 8 0 64
OTHERS 88 16 0 104
TOTAL 11637 4807 2691 19136
* 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 5612 5644
August (t) 5474 5401 5689 5480 6822 6338 5882 6965 4682 5632 5837
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 43236 59821

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 17926 5786 1673 25385
ITALY 11127 2130 328 13586
TÜRKIYE 3158 130 259 3546
GREECE 294 8 8 309
CHILE 120 0 0 120
AUSTRALIA 107 2 0 109
TUNISIA 75 1 9 85
OTHERS 79 16 0 95
TOTAL 32886 8072 2277 43236
* 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 31094 30684 28293 26099
March (t) 27063 35723 23209 29692 25868 32358 29600 32371 38220 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 33578 35182 34926 30775
August (t) 23631 34877 31323 27301 28826 36663 31042 40406 25205 29692 30897
September (t) 22061 24525 23264 23661 30822 34369 28502 24949 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 356181 396919 390533 412053 370929 357809 356592

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 48266 30992 28310 12890 720 12155 77296 56038 133333
ITALY 80982 6133 16566 782 1088 4234 98635 11149 109784
TUNISIA 12344 32398 893 7331 42 163 13279 39892 53170
TÜRKIYE 4867 3466 3250 6113 10 3631 8127 13210 21337
ARGENTINA 466 9941 72 0 0 60 538 10001 10539
GREECE 5857 1060 1723 548 76 245 7657 1853 9510
CHILE 1130 3428 150 0 8 0 1288 3428 4716
PORTUGAL 2236 1333 866 18 4 22 3107 1373 4480
MOROCCO 1211 2105 2 0 0 0 1213 2105 3318
LEBANON 1593 366 488 37 0 0 2081 404 2484
ISRAEL 598 190 164 777 0 0 762 967 1730
AUSTRALIA 36 956 0 0 0 0 36 956 992
MEXICO 245 0 631 0 0 0 876 0 876
OTHERS 429 739 121 86 60 104 610 928 1538
TOTAL 160260 93108 53237 28582 2008 20614 215504 142305 357809
* 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 26916
May (t) 21581 16535 31313 15450 17554 14034 19687
June (t) 15743 12449 27567 12919 14685 17304 20923
July (t) 13851 12590 23989 8839 11022 20494 22578
August (t) 23004 15391 18304 8598 14101 21709 14136
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 218374

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 114611 3939 20897 139446
TÜRKIYE 23672 3209 485 27366
SYRIA 10986 162 82 11230
EGYPT 10354 259 0 10613
ARGENTINA 8734 25 0 8760
MOROCCO 5387 94 2659 8140
CHILE 3887 16 159 4063
ALBANIA 1887 277 209 2373
LEBANON 1493 278 0 1772
PERU 1296 0 0 1296
UNITED KINGDOM 588 529 58 1175
OTHERS 1463 376 302 2140
TOTAL 184359 9164 24852 218374
* 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 81316
May (t) 86763 82703 93860 110668 126210 89846 83479
June (t) 93063 85711 97589 96352 104896 81991 76250
July (t) 87382 98717 100376 87734 91926 70480 24525
August (t) 75873 74546 78924 66590 89901 62004 18244
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 761125

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 303322 59175 48349 410846
PORTUGAL 95294 27766 16488 139548
ITALY 77214 9542 19646 106403
GREECE 51224 4634 22394 78253
FRANCE 7648 717 248 8613
BELGIUM 3984 570 71 4625
GERMANY 2278 1190 366 3835
NETHERLANDS 789 923 260 1973
ROMANIA 1803 3 0 1806
OTHERS 3123 1584 517 5224
TOTAL 546679 106105 108340 761125
* 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 Oct 17 22:28:06 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).