Spain: MAPA promotes agri-food foreign trade

Published Jul 28, 2021

Tridge summary

The Spanish Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food has launched a new tool to provide easy access to data on the agri-food sector's exports and imports. The tool is designed to be user-friendly and interactive, allowing professionals to monitor and analyze foreign agri-food trade in depth. The ministry emphasized the sector's significance, as it contributes 11% to Spain's GDP and generates 2.8 million jobs. Despite the economic decline due to the pandemic, the agri-food sector experienced a 4.1% growth in 2020. The ministry is working to support the sector's international presence through market opening, product promotion, and simplification of administrative procedures. It also underscored the need for stringent imports to meet EU standards.

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The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, has highlighted the growing potential of foreign trade that stands as one of the fundamental engines of the dynamic agri-food and fishing sector. It is precisely the importance of foreign trade and the need to have relevant information on it, which has led the ministry to develop a new tool that allows intuitive and interactive access to data on exports and imports of the agri-food sector and fishing. In today's presentation of this tool, already available on the ministry's website, in the area of "Analysis and Statistics", Luis Planas, pointed out that the tool will be very useful for the sector as a whole and that this initiative is framed in the policies of transparency and access to information of the General State Administration. This tool allows monitoring of foreign agri-food trade, as has been done up to now with monthly and annual export reports, but with greater scope and depth. The program allows displaying ...

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