MARKET NEWSLETTER JANUARY 2012

Over the last four crop years, imports of olive oil (customs heading 1509) between the 27 Member States of the European Union have gone up by 23%, rising from 792 458.8 t in 2007/08 to 974 456.8 t in 2010/11. This translates into a yearly average of 867 098.8 t. When broken down by percentage share of cumulative intra-EU imports for the four seasons, Italy leads the way with