Trade Flows

Import/export data and trade patterns

10 articles

Two blue-hulled Maersk container ships berthed at the container terminal in Salalah, Oman, with gantry cranes, stacked Maersk boxes and a cement works below bare mountains

Maersk halts Gulf reefer bookings as EU food exports through Hormuz slump

Shipments to Saudi Arabia, Oman and Jordan, reachable without the strait, rose 1 per cent over the same six months

Sep 14, 2026
Gnarled centuries-old olive trees with broad canopies spaced across a grassy grove under a blue sky near Ostuni in Apulia, southern Italy

Tunisia overtakes Spain as top US olive oil supplier as Italian shipments drop 31%

Italian stocks are 43.9 per cent higher than a year ago and extra-virgin is quoted at €4.85 a kg against €9.59 last August

Sep 9, 2026
Olive trees spaced across stony red ground on a hillside in the commune of Imlil, Morocco, with further groves and mountains behind

Moroccan olive oil pours into EU at record pace as next crop seen falling 40%

Six-month shipments of 22,409 tonnes exceed any full year since 2000, as Interprolive forecasts a 1.2mn-tonne crop and Andalucía asks Brussels to suspend duty-free inward processing

Sep 8, 2026
Greenhouses covered in white plastic sheeting stretch from a hillside to the horizon at El Ejido, Almería

Spanish tomato growers get best price in a decade but exports shrink as Morocco overtakes

Almería and Granada growers were paid €1.15/kg in 2025/26 as Spain’s fresh-tomato export volume fell 45% over eleven campaigns and Morocco became the EU’s larger supplier.

Sep 7, 2026
Rows of olive trees stretching across rolling hills in the municipality of Jaén, southern Spain, with the Cerro Aznaitín and the Sierra Mágina on the horizon under a blue sky

Italy's Coricelli nears exclusive talks to buy Deoleo for €500mn as Madrid asks for a Spanish buyer

The world's largest olive-oil bottler is changing hands with Spanish extra virgin back at its €3.50 floor and Tunisia now the biggest supplier to the US

Sep 2, 2026
Cold and saturated fields delay Canadian canola planting just as China returns

Cold and saturated fields delay Canadian canola planting just as China returns

With fields too cold to seed and too wet to drive, Prairie farmers face a compressed May window — just as China resumes buying Canadian canola.

Apr 29, 2026
Guatemala's $632m US coffee year set up for retreat as arabica eases below $3

Guatemala's $632m US coffee year set up for retreat as arabica eases below $3

Record arabica prices drove a $196m jump in invoice value while supply shrank, with the world's fourth-largest arabica producer riding the global benchmark rather than expanding output

Apr 28, 2026
Kenya's record avocado crop heads to the press as Red Sea freight hits fresh trade

Kenya's record avocado crop heads to the press as Red Sea freight hits fresh trade

Red Sea shipping disruptions 'resulted in delayed delivery periods, impacting the quality on arrival at the destination market and resulting in losses,' said Kenyan agri-business Sasini

Apr 27, 2026
tomato processing line

China targets California’s ‘backyard’ with push into Americas tomato paste market

The world's largest exporter of tomato paste is aggressively courting buyers in the Caribbean, Central America and South America after losing ground in Europe

Nov 10, 2025