Spain exports agri-food products to the US worth 3.5 billion euros

Spain exports agricultural products to the United States worth just over 3.5 billion euros (Datacomex 2024 data), a bill of which 30% (1.013 billion) comes from income obtained exclusively from the sale of olive oil to that destination. US President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he will impose tariffs on imports of agricultural products starting April 2, in what is his latest threat to trade barriers to goods that other countries sell in the United States. "To the great farmers of the United States: get ready to start producing much more agricultural products to sell WITHIN the United States. Tariffs will be applied to external products on April 2. Have fun!" wrote the president in a message on his social network, Truth Social. After olive oil, the next most important item is wine sales, with 335 million euros that Spain obtained from its sales to the United States last year (Datacomex data), while table olives are the third most important item (just over 200 million ...