Daily Archives: February 6, 2017

Sales of olive oil and olive pomace oil open the 2016/17 crop year on an upturn. In the first two months (October – November 2016) the eight markets that appear in the table below present an increase of 98.6% in China; 65% in Australia; 42% in Canada; 17% in Japan; 16% in Brazil and 5% in the United States, compared to the same period in the previous campaign. At the time of publishing this Newsletter, figures for Russia were only available for the month of October, when a 20 % year-on-year increase was recorded.

As regards EU1 trade in the first month of the current crop year (October 2016), intra-EU acquisitions increased by 24% and extra-EU imports fell by 56% compared to the same month the previous year.