Spain imported close to half of the cereals that arrived in the EU in the first half of the campaign

Community imports of cereals stood at 17.08 million tonnes in the first half of the current 2023/24 campaign (from July 1, 2023 to January 7, 2024), which represents a drop of 25% compared to the same period of the previous campaign, according to data from the European Commission. Of that volume, 7.8 million tons were imported into Spain, which represents 45.7% of the total. Spain was the main importer of common wheat from third countries (2.9 million tons), corn (3.9 million), barley (674,202 tons) and rye (60,243 tons). Of durum wheat, it imported 200,235 tons, which places our country as the second importer at the community level, far behind Italy (1.25 million tons). Ukraine was the first supplier of cereals to the EU market, with 9.09 million tons. Although its shipments fell compared to the same period of the previous campaign (10.9 million tons), its share in the community market grew to 53.23% (compared to 48% in the first half of 2022/23) due to reduced the quota of other ...