Morocco displaces Spain to third place as supplier of tomatoes to the EU

Published 2024년 3월 3일

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Spanish farmers are protesting against what they perceive as unfair competition from Morocco and Turkey, whose agricultural products enter the EU with less stringent requirements. This has resulted in Spain losing its status as a leading tomato supplier to the EU over the past five years. Despite higher prices in 2023, Spain's market share has dropped by 25.2%, while Morocco and Turkey have seen increases of 18.86% and 147.28% respectively. The farmers are calling for more equal health controls and the implementation of mirror clauses.

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Among the many reasons why farmers have been protesting insistently in recent weeks, the most obvious is the unfair competition from third countries, whose product crosses the borders of the European Union with much more lax requirements than those they have to face. Spanish producers. This, for example, has caused Spain to lose preponderance as a tomato supplier to the European Union in the last five years to the benefit of Morocco, according to a report prepared by Hortoinfo with data from the Euroestacom statistical service (ICEX-Eurostat). According to this report, Spanish producers (with the Almería field in the lead) have lost a significant community market share (-25.2%), which would have taken them to third place behind Holland and Morocco. Specifically, Dutch sales also decreased (-18.62%), while the growth experienced by Morocco (18.86%) and especially Turkey (147.28%) demonstrate the ease with which products from third countries are entering. This ...

Source: Diariodealmeria