Video: EU agri-food exports, drop of 11%
2024 Author: Cody Thornton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 12:26
They drop by 11% the agri-food exports from the European Union, but imports also decrease and to a greater extent (16%), therefore the trade balance remains in surplus, with a surplus that increases by 3.6%. The data are those of January 2021, disclosed by the usual report of the European Commission, and the comparison is with the same month of the previous year. Exports from the EU outside the Union have decreased, totaling a value of 13.5 billion euros; imports fell to a total of 9.1 billion euros: the trade surplus for the month is 4.4 billion euros
Specifically, EU exports decreased to the United Kingdom, which is now out with Brexit (792 million euros), the United States (254 million euros), Russia (110 million euros), Japan (66 million euros) and Arabia. Saudi (62 million euros). On the other hand, exports to China are increasing (146 million euros): the most popular products are pork, cereals, rapeseed oil and sunflower oil. The values of exports to Chile (29 million euros), Pakistan (24 million euros) and Norway (24 million euros) also grow.
Looking at the products, exports go down above all wine (188 million euros), baby food (millions of euros), get ready of fruits and vegetables (89 million euros), chocolate and confectionery (79 million euros). In imports, in Europe we buy less tropical fruit (270 million euros), palm oil and palm kernel (129 million euros), spirits and liqueurs (102 million euros).
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