EU27 agri-food trade – latest data for January-April 2020

Agro Napló2020. július 29. 12:51

The EU-27's agricultural trade experienced some slowdown in April 2020 amid the coronavirus crisis. Exports and imports fell 9% and 5% respectively, falling below the level of the previous month.

However, the figures for the total agricultural trade of the 27 over the first 4 months of 2020 (including export and import) exceeded those of the same period of 2019 by 3.8% and reached the value of € 104.3 billion. Agri-food exports to the EU over this period amounted to € 61.9 billion (an increase of 4.8% compared to the same period of 2019) and imports to € 4.4 billion (an increase of 2.3%). A full report on EU agricultural trade for the period January to April 2020 is available online.

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