Spain remains the main importer of grain from Ukraine

Throughout the 2023/24 cereal campaign and in the first months of the current 2024/25 campaign, Spain has been the leading EU importer of cereals from Ukraine, especially soft wheat, according to data presented by the European Commission at a recent meeting of the EU Observatory on Arable Crops. The increase in purchases by Spain has been parallel to the fall in purchases made by Ukraine's five neighbouring Member States. In the case of soft wheat, Spanish imports increased considerably from October 2022, but our country became by far the leading buyer of Ukrainian wheat within the EU in the spring of 2023, once measures began to be applied to prevent grain from that country from flooding the markets of the Member States bordering Ukraine, whose imports have since been very insignificant. In January 2024, for example, the EU imported nearly 800,000 tonnes of Ukrainian wheat, of which 600,000 tonnes were for the Spanish market. In the last month for which Brussels has provided ...