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

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 ...