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
