Top 20 countries in global tomato paste imports; increased dependence on foreign supplies of tomato paste

Published 2022년 9월 30일

Tridge summary

The top 20 countries importing paste saw a 15% increase in imports compared to the pre-Covid period, with an annual variation of 3.7% +55,800 mT from the 2020/2021 marketing year. This increase is more pronounced than the global average, with the top five countries (Germany, United Kingdom, Japan, the Netherlands, and France) accounting for over one-third of annual global imports. The average annual growth rate over the last five years for the top 20 countries is 3.2%, compared to 2% worldwide and 0.3% for the other 90 countries not in the top 20. The list of countries in the top 20 changes based on national dynamics and the availability of statistics.

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Original content

2021/2022 imports were 15% higher than during the pre-Covid period.Paste imports of the TOP20 countries in 2021/2022 (July/June) Imports of the top 20 paste importing countries (HS codes 200290) increased significantly in 2021/2022, with an annual variation of 3.7% (+55,800 mT) from the 2020/2021 marketing year and an increase of 7.2% (+105,400 mT) compared to the three previous marketing years (from 2018/2019 to 2020/2021). This intensification of trade flows is all the more remarkable for the fact that this recent three-year period was strongly marked by the consequences of the Covid pandemic, which already clearly amplified demand: in the end, the quantities shipped in by all the TOP20 importing countries reached the historical level of 1.572 million mT, a result almost 15% higher (about 202,000 mT) than in the pre-Covid period (2016/2017-2018/2019, 1.370 million mT). The acceleration in supply observed last year was much more pronounced in the TOP20 countries than it was ...

Source: Tomatonews