Spain, fourth largest food exporting country in the EU

Spanish agri-food exports in 2018 maintained their upward trend reaching 50,349 million euros, representing an increase of 0.6% compared to 2017.

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has published the Annual Foreign Trade Report 2018, a detailed and up-to-date analysis of the main indicators and magnitudes, which provides an in-depth knowledge of the current situation of foreign trade in the agri-food sector. Their data shows the increase of exports of the agri-food sector that reached 50,349 million euros in 2018, with an increase of 0.6% compared to 2017.

In turn, imports accounted for 38,364 million euros, an increase of 0.6% over the previous year, resulting in a balance of 11,984 million, with a slight increase of 0.3% over the previous period.

The report, which is structured in three blocks, studies in the first of them the main figures of agri-food foreign trade as a whole, highlighting the contribution of the agri-food sector, which accounted for 17.7% of exports of the national economy as a whole .

Spain remains as the fourth EU exporter of this type of merchandise, covering an export quota of 8.8%, slightly higher than that of 2017. A quota only surpassed by the Netherlands, Germany and France.