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Global Exports of Tomato Paste, Updated June 16, 2021

17/06/2021

Architecture of Trade
François-Xavier Branthôme
California,
Middle East
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Comparison of monthly exports over past two years

For each of the ten countries (China, Italy, Spain, USA, Portugal, Chile, Turkey, Ukraine, Greece, Netherlands (and Iran)) that play a significant role in international trade, Tomato News presents a comparison of the monthly performances for exports of tomato paste over past two years.
This situation makes it possible to follow the evolution of national export dynamics and to compare recent performances with those of equivalent periods of the previous year. These elements of international trade also give a better understanding of the quantities on which the average values presented in our articles on tomato paste prices were constructed.

The ten countries presented accounted for 94% of the sector’s total imports on average over the last five years, with the remaining 6% distributed over approximately 80 countries.
The increase in the level of export activity, directly linked to the CoVid pandemic crisis, is easily identifiable for most countries, particularly in Europe and a few neighbouring countries, over the spring and summer months of 2020. It also seems to remain at a high level since the beginning of 2021.
With a total quantity exceeding 3.182 million metric tonnes of tomato paste exported over the period April 2020-March 2021, the level of twelve-month activity for the TOP10 exporting countries was 46.500 mT (1.5%) higher than that of the same period of the previous year.
 

In the case of the Netherlands, it is important to note that this country does not have an agricultural production of processing tomatoes or an industrial first transformation industry, but only companies producing second-step tomato products (type sauces) from imported tomato paste. Tomato pastes imported into the Netherlands are mainly of Italian, Spanish or US origin. The quantities mentioned here correspond to re-exports.

Sources: Trade Data Monitor LLC, professional sources