WORLD TRADE IN OLIVE OIL AND TABLE OLIVES

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Eight markets represent around 81% of the imports of olive oils and virgin olive oils around the world, the United States with 36%, the European Union with 15%, Brazil with 8%, Japan with 7%, Canada with 5%, China with 4%, Australia with 3%, and Russia with 3%.

In the first months of the 2020/2021 crop year, imports of olive oils and virgin olive oils in the top eight markets reached 440978 tonnes (+9.8%, compared to the same period previous crop year).

The table below shows the trade in the first months of the current crop year (2020/2021). Imports rose in Australia (+14.1%), Brazil (+4.8%), Canada (+17.7%), China (-3.2%), Japan (-13.6%), Russia (+19.6%), United States (+12.8%) and the extra-EU (+12.8%), compared to the same period the previous crop year.

2015/2016 2016/2017 2017/2018 2018/2019 2019/2020 2020/2021 Average %Variation Rates
AUSTRALIA 11561 15957 13234 15562 15302 17461 14846 14.1
BRAZIL 22825 33057 40698 46248 56730 59476 43172 4.8
CANADA 19350 20864 22129 22596 25440 29933 23385 17.7
CHINA 17455 20533 19407 22249 24123 23343 21185 -3.2
JAPAN 22526 23435 25297 30150 32532 28101 27007 -13.6
RUSSIA 9081 9026 9494 11838 12875 15398 11285 19.6
USA 148171 141633 147063 164241 164814 185905 158638 12.8
Extra-EU 54563 42823 73839 63103 69889 81362 64263 16.4
Total 305533 307328 351160 375986 401706 440978 363782 9.8

Imports mainly came from Tunisia with a share of 27.5% of all imports (+36.8%, compared to the same period the previous crop year), Spain with 27.2%, Italy with 20.5%, Portugal with 11.8%, Argentina with 3.1%, Turkey with 2.7%, Chile with 2.1% and Greece with 2.1%.

2017/2018 2018/2019 2019/2020 2020/2021 %Share %Variation rates
TUNISIA 65956 65217 88744 121366 27.5 36.8
SPAIN 102861 127747 130956 120077 27.2 -8.3
ITALY 82187 88147 76751 90288 20.5 17.6
PORTUGAL 26624 32809 47815 52061 11.8 8.9
ARGENTINA 14967 8367 12812 13561 3.1 5.8
TURKEY 23381 16354 13478 11939 2.7 -11.4
GREECE 7750 9594 9311 9288 2.1 -0.2
CHILE 7541 7868 6840 9272 2.1 35.6
MOROCCO 1738 8584 5361 5149 1.2 -4
Others 18154 11300 9639 7978 1.8 -17.2
Total 351160 375986 401706 440978 100 9.8

In terms of volumes by product category, 76.1% of total imports were under code 15.09.10 (virgin olive oils), followed by imports under 15.09.90 (olive oils) with 18.8% and the remaining 5.1% under 15.10.00 (olive pomace oils).

OLIVE OIL
OLIVE POMACE OIL
Country 150910 VIRGIN OLIVE OIL 150990 OLIVE OIL 151000 OLIVE POMACE OIL TOTAL
SPAIN 86537 33540 7136 127213
TUNISIA 104968 16398 5388 126754
ITALY 74572 15717 3120 93408
PORTUGAL 39509 12551 140 52201
ARGENTINA 12864 697 0 13561
MOROCCO 4140 1008 7279 12428
TURKEY 6257 5682 143 12082
GREECE 8758 530 218 9506
CHILE 9272 0 0 9272
LEBANON 1682 276 2 1960
SYRIA 1410 71 0 1481
OTHERS 3483 1056 302 4841
TOTAL 353452 87527 23729 464707
* Own elaboration

As for table olives, five markets represents around 64% of the imports around the world, the United States with 23%, Brazil with 17%, the European Union with 16%, 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 (2020/2021).

2016/2017 2017/2018 2018/2019 2019/2020 2020/2021 Average %Variation Rates
AUSTRALIA 10087 9393 10802 9394 11781 10291 25.4
BRAZIL 68283 62987 69281 76254 89419 73245 17.3
CANADA 16269 17209 17720 19118 23624 18788 23.6
Extra-EU 43067 50180 52408 51582 56683 50784 9.9
USA 80892 76443 84076 86989 77943 81269 -10.4
Total 218598 216213 234287 243338 259450 234377 6.6

Imports rose in Australia (+25.4%), Brazil (+17.3%), Canada (+23.6%), United States (-10.4%) and the extra-EU (+9.9%), compared to the same period the previous crop year.

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

2017/2018 2018/2019 2019/2020 2020/2021 %Share %Variation rates
SPAIN 56057 54755 58965 52428 20.2 -11.1
EGYPT 29118 27725 25931 43075 16.6 66.1
ARGENTINA 42822 38583 41455 39674 15.3 -4.3
GREECE 26258 30253 27888 34398 13.3 23.3
MOROCCO 27092 31330 30353 30467 11.7 0.4
TURKEY 15758 21842 19910 20888 8.1 4.9
PERU 5266 13651 17812 20682 8.0 16.1
ITALY 3927 4467 5628 5373 2.1 -4.5
Others 9913 11681 15397 12465 4.8 -19
Total 216213 234287 243338 259450 100 6.6

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 Average
January (t) 2066 3517 1475 2349 3130 1943 2413
February (t) 2109 2377 2498 2211 2376 3708 2547
March (t) 2868 2206 2454 2548 2699 2841 2603
April (t) 2324 2225 2160 2178 2861 NA 2350
May (t) 3120 2428 2826 2777 4260 NA 3082
June (t) 2385 1786 3397 2583 4876 NA 3005
July (t) 1636 2701 4125 3302 4136 NA 3180
August (t) 2839 2272 2903 2980 2298 NA 2659
September (t) 2699 1773 2961 2769 2732 NA 2587
October (t-1) 1718 2295 2844 3344 2275 3353 2638
November (t-1) 1819 3530 2039 3379 2472 2564 2634
December (t-1) 1266 2513 2016 1894 2444 3377 2252
Total 26850 29624 31699 32315 36558 17786 29139

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 7438 5256 0 12694
ITALY 1886 492 190 2568
GREECE 947 123 2 1073
LEBANON 313 201 0 515
TURKEY 235 56 21 312
CHILE 150 0 0 150
TUNISIA 32 110 0 142
PERU 119 0 0 119
GERMANY 0 0 57 57
NETHERLANDS 0 1 55 56
SYRIA 45 8 0 53
OTHERS 30 19 0 49
TOTAL 11194 6267 325 17786
* 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 Average
January (t) 5164 6367 4395 4363 6103 6515 8938 9220 6383
February (t) 5215 5517 3169 3931 6442 8023 8861 7230 6049
March (t) 6747 6792 2660 5398 8383 8849 11911 9491 7529
April (t) 5281 4769 4080 4609 7079 8794 9277 NA 6270
May (t) 5110 2781 3915 4496 6124 6699 8038 NA 5309
June (t) 5158 3972 4151 3972 4808 5324 5584 NA 4710
July (t) 6416 4614 4735 4244 5776 5879 8862 NA 5789
August (t) 5759 5267 5193 4787 5279 7374 7237 NA 5842
September (t) 6061 4595 5278 4610 6816 5882 8292 NA 5934
October (t-1) 9075 9585 5530 5233 5444 8246 8334 11052 7812
November (t-1) 6240 7270 4854 6844 7285 8468 11000 12250 8026
December (t-1) 7157 6249 2690 7653 7276 6310 7845 10356 6942
Total 73382 67778 50649 60140 76817 86362 104179 59598 72363

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 28753 9441 22 38216
SPAIN 9289 299 59 9646
ARGENTINA 3881 676 0 4557
CHILE 2894 0 0 2894
ITALY 2724 32 41 2797
TUNISIA 1031 0 0 1031
GREECE 229 0 0 229
URUGUAY 71 0 0 71
LEBANON 59 0 0 59
TURKEY 58 0 0 58
OTHERS 40 0 0 40
TOTAL 49028 10448 122 59598
* 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 Average
January (t) 3648 2339 3014 3221 3993 3246 4094 5423 3622
February (t) 2786 3007 3835 2841 3287 2779 3223 3543 3162
March (t) 3954 2870 3744 4201 4800 4017 5878 4687 4269
April (t) 5650 4118 3883 3881 4245 4764 5480 NA 4574
May (t) 3866 4228 3660 4071 3622 3988 7405 NA 4406
June (t) 4810 3349 3619 2721 4713 3026 4463 NA 3815
July (t) 2699 3366 3071 2180 3324 4211 5703 NA 3508
August (t) 2683 2395 4484 3152 5338 4814 3339 NA 3744
September (t) 2352 2934 3441 3129 4240 3387 5949 NA 3633
October (t-1) 3999 3983 3079 3580 4297 4663 4516 5756 4234
November (t-1) 2846 3258 2871 4873 3219 4029 4002 5147 3781
December (t-1) 2663 3070 3192 2884 2888 4218 4182 5901 3625
Total 41955 38917 41893 40736 47967 47141 58236 30456 43413

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 7527 3403 268 11198
ITALY 8094 1493 197 9783
TUNISIA 5561 449 15 6025
GREECE 1418 24 10 1452
LEBANON 347 37 0 385
USA 136 135 1 273
PORTUGAL 70 190 0 260
ARGENTINA 216 18 0 234
TURKEY 173 23 29 225
MOROCCO 166 54 0 221
CHILE 125 0 0 125
OTHERS 209 64 2 274
TOTAL 24043 5890 523 30456
* 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 Average
January (t) 3268 2850 3068 2777 6114 7115 3542 4931 4208
February (t) 1050 1471 1501 1852 852 1520 3542 1975 1720
March (t) 2323 2504 3680 2411 1338 3599 2780 3264 2737
April (t) 2533 2835 2576 2579 1548 3048 2549 NA 2524
May (t) 2955 2534 3053 3037 2195 3275 4603 NA 3093
June (t) 4032 4139 2216 2335 4143 3252 5730 NA 3692
July (t) 4367 4161 4900 4254 3677 4892 5480 NA 4533
August (t) 3387 3361 3683 5057 3937 6839 4631 NA 4414
September (t) 2327 2450 3264 4027 4143 3805 6366 NA 3769
October (t-1) 2609 2411 3107 4189 2722 2496 3204 2588 2916
November (t-1) 3031 3651 3220 8376 3833 4405 6565 5438 4815
December (t-1) 4008 3531 6015 4929 7697 4740 6586 7785 5661
Total 35891 35898 40281 45822 42198 48986 55580 25982 41330

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 15138 6226 1990 23354
ITALY 1207 94 622 1922
TURKEY 107 4 23 134
GREECE 121 9 0 130
CHILE 105 0 0 105
TUNISIA 103 0 0 103
AUSTRALIA 96 0 0 96
OTHERS 88 44 5 137
TOTAL 16965 6378 2639 25982
* 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 Average
January (t) 4531 3402 4007 4706 5594 4644 3691 4368
February (t) 3474 3916 3034 3664 4489 5126 3688 3913
March (t) 6753 4876 4328 4585 5399 6333 5915 5455
April (t) 6319 5608 4829 4466 7211 6473 NA 5818
May (t) 6550 6437 6697 5128 5832 5508 NA 6025
June (t) 4603 4896 4813 5037 5786 8549 NA 5614
July (t) 5129 5593 5215 5462 7201 5845 NA 5741
August (t) 5474 5401 5689 5480 6822 6338 NA 5867
September (t) 5595 5229 5171 5388 6659 5772 NA 5636
October (t-1) 4776 4492 3718 4871 5142 4963 4903 4695
November (t-1) 4735 3791 5987 4432 5894 5299 6160 5185
December (t-1) 3965 3097 3395 3946 4610 7189 4478 4383
Total 61904 56738 56884 57166 70640 72038 28834 57743

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 14092 3834 580 18507
ITALY 7312 1409 102 8823
TURKEY 689 204 0 894
GREECE 230 0 6 236
PORTUGAL 115 1 45 161
AUSTRALIA 60 0 0 60
TUNISIA 55 3 0 58
CHILE 36 0 0 36
OTHERS 59 0 0 60
TOTAL 22649 5452 733 28834
* 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 Average
January (t) 1513 1386 1326 1783 1422 1594 2220 1606
February (t) 1216 1765 1800 1746 2186 2123 2789 1946
March (t) 1589 2424 2354 2011 1971 2936 2393 2240
April (t) 1164 2653 2504 1995 2351 3061 NA 2288
May (t) 1127 1736 2326 2432 2253 3067 NA 2157
June (t) 1612 1777 2442 2160 2594 2690 NA 2213
July (t) 1882 2286 1581 2319 2844 2484 NA 2233
August (t) 1485 2469 2192 2341 2602 2700 NA 2298
September (t) 1656 1896 1641 2114 2233 2728 NA 2045
October (t-1) 4272 1786 2141 2255 3059 3412 4156 3012
November (t-1) 3175 2084 2273 2036 2306 2636 3908 2631
December (t-1) 2653 1941 1746 2107 2838 2904 3992 2597
Total 23346 24201 24328 25299 28657 32334 19458 25375

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 5398 1729 2546 9673
ITALY 5180 886 1280 7346
GREECE 1110 0 184 1294
PORTUGAL 365 34 49 448
TURKEY 284 4 0 288
TUNISIA 174 16 0 191
BELARUS 129 7 1 137
UKRAINE 30 0 0 30
MOROCCO 17 0 0 17
CHILE 12 0 0 12
CYPRUS 11 0 0 11
OTHERS 9 2 0 11
TOTAL 12720 2678 4060 19458
* 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 Average
January (t) 24296 26922 30429 25135 24754 23870 41415 28117
February (t) 27444 22369 20022 23000 26293 29003 22795 24418
March (t) 27063 35723 23209 29692 25869 32358 29600 29074
April (t) 31126 25428 33968 32556 33158 37219 NA 32243
May (t) 25086 34172 28046 28242 28350 39718 NA 30602
June (t) 31445 32210 26623 26137 29734 45347 NA 31916
July (t) 28485 22610 26376 31724 36012 35315 NA 30087
August (t) 23631 34877 31323 27301 28826 36663 NA 30437
September (t) 22061 24525 23264 23661 30822 34369 NA 26451
October (t-1) 23332 28580 22352 27199 34987 33225 29340 28431
November (t-1) 28450 20324 29150 20715 26394 22627 33389 25864
December (t-1) 18756 23628 21996 26836 30983 27205 32337 25963
Total 311174 331370 316759 322199 356183 396919 188875 317640

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
ITALY 45542 2627 11207 103 482 206 57231 2937 60168
TUNISIA 14383 15672 12235 2635 14 110 26631 18416 45047
SPAIN 3484 24171 1997 10796 569 1124 6050 36091 42141
PORTUGAL 9195 996 2872 14 12 12 12079 1021 13100
TURKEY 1166 2417 406 4261 7 61 1579 6739 8318
ARGENTINA 2150 3063 2 0 0 0 2152 3063 5216
GREECE 3484 1220 277 97 16 0 3777 1317 5093
CHILE 1592 3433 0 0 0 0 1592 3433 5025
MOROCCO 584 820 0 530 3 323 587 1673 2259
LEBANON 881 39 17 0 0 0 899 40 938
ISRAEL 484 19 37 53 0 0 521 72 593
OTHERS 278 331 122 213 1 30 402 574 976
TOTAL 83223 54808 29172 18702 1104 1866 113499 75376 188875
* 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

2016/2017 2017/2018 2018/2019 2019/2020 2020/2021 Average
January (t) 3388 11372 14470 14561 14901 11738
February (t) 9480 23168 20077 21784 17754 18453
March (t) 8490 23614 18795 38074 NA 22243
April (t) 5960 18284 14917 32505 NA 17917
May (t) 6841 21581 16535 31313 NA 19067
June (t) 10704 15743 12449 27567 NA 16615
July (t) 8570 13851 12590 23989 NA 14750
August (t) 7682 23004 15391 18304 NA 16095
September (t) 10987 7449 8553 20349 NA 11835
October (t-1) 7970 6659 12950 13337 19827 12149
November (t-1) 8941 17039 15096 11688 22013 14955
December (t-1) 23995 25285 19249 17869 19223 21124
Total 113005 207050 181074 271341 93717 173237

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 67956 951 5249 74156
MOROCCO 2552 421 6953 9926
ARGENTINA 3529 0 0 3529
TURKEY 1127 724 2 1853
SYRIA 1218 23 0 1242
CHILE 924 0 0 924
OTHERS 1514 422 151 2087
TOTAL 78821 2541 12356 93718
* IOC own elaboration based on EUROSTAT

9. Intra-EU

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

2016/2017 2017/2018 2018/2019 2019/2020 2020/2021 Average
January (t) 89994 97626 88766 98847 97950 94636
February (t) 113209 85129 92686 107732 119629 103677
March (t) 103734 81625 91677 112300 NA 97334
April (t) 74336 75974 89318 102922 NA 85638
May (t) 82538 86763 82703 93860 NA 86466
June (t) 81809 93063 85711 97589 NA 89543
July (t) 76446 87382 98717 100376 NA 90730
August (t) 58061 75873 74546 78924 NA 71851
September (t) 55169 82583 84168 103740 NA 81415
October (t-1) 76728 71037 83337 102196 99355 86531
November (t-1) 85597 86734 87260 100323 105730 93129
December (t-1) 107870 90935 97768 115451 119746 106354
Total 1005492 1014723 1056656 1214260 542410 966708

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 256069 34874 17876 308820
GREECE 73825 1058 20020 94903
ITALY 49848 3635 11000 64483
PORTUGAL 50879 3268 5491 59638
FRANCE 2909 426 64 3399
GERMANY 2685 577 72 3334
NETHERLANDS 509 282 1234 2025
BELGIUM 1165 488 197 1850
OTHERS 3210 541 205 3957
TOTAL 441099 45150 56161 542410
* IOC own elaboration based on EUROSTAT


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


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.

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 Refined olive oil; 15100010 Crude olive-pomace oil; 15100090 Refined olive-pomace oil;

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).


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June 1th - 2020/2021 crop year