Latvia is ahead of Uzbekistan: Unexpected reshuffle of top importers of Kazakh sunflower meal/cake

This year, Kazakh exporters of sunflower meal/cake have not only significantly increased the volume of supplies of their products to foreign markets, but also changed the traditional geography of sales. As APK-Inform reports with reference to official statistics, for 7 months of 2023, 167.05 thousand tons of sunflower meal/cake were exported from Kazakhstan. This is almost 67% higher than last year (100.23 thousand tons). It is interesting that the traditional TOP importer of these products - Uzbekistan - this year lost the championship to a European country - Latvia. So, in January-July of this year. Latvia imported 62.58 thousand tons of sunflower meal/cake from the Republic of Kazakhstan (versus only 11.47 thousand tons for the same period in 2022), taking first place in the list of buyers. Uzbekistan reduced purchase volumes from 53.53 thousand tons to 51.92 thousand tons and took second place. Iran unexpectedly took third place, importing 21.15 thousand tons of these products ...