Ukraine currently covers 86% of European sunflower oil imports

Ukraine is the largest supplier of sunflower oil to the European Union. According to research by Agrarmarkt Informations-Gesellschaft (mbH), a total of around 1.7 million t were imported in the 2020/21 marketing year, of which 1.5 million t and around 88% came from Ukraine. In the 2019/20 season, Ukraine had a smaller share of EU imports, delivering 2 million t more than in the previous season. In the current marketing year, the EU-27 imported a total of around 1.27 million tonnes of sunflower oil by the end of February, according to the Union for the Promotion of Oil and Protein Plants (UFOP). 1.09 million t of this came from the Ukraine, which corresponds to a market share of 86%. Moldova, Bosnia Herzegovina and the United Kingdom follow in the order of suppliers with 7% each. UFOP emphasizes that if imports from Ukraine were to stop completely and in the medium term in view of the export ban, the European Union would face a serious supply problem. Sunflower imports to the ...