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The European Union’s weekly wheat exports amounted to 243,324 tonnes in the week to Sunday, February 16, according to initial data from the European Commission. Total wheat exports from the EU for the 2024/25 marketing year stood at 13.34 million tonnes, down by 36% compared with the same period in the previous marketing year, when 20.80 million tonnes of wheat had been exported.
The leading wheat supplier was Romania with 3.77 million tonnes, followed by Lithuania with 1.95 million tonnes and Latvia with 1.65 million tonnes.
Nigeria continued to top the list of export destinations so far in the new marketing year, receiving 2.01 million tonnes (15.1% of total exports) of milling wheat, followed by Morocco with 1.51 million tonnes, the UK with 983,699 tonnes, Algeria with 947,055 tonnes and Egypt with 882,383 tonnes.
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Barley exports from the EU stood at 85,825 tonnes in the week to February 16, while the total volume of barley exports for the new marketing year amounted to 3.64 million tonnes, down by 17% year on year from 3.67 million tonnes.
Since the beginning of the new marketing year, Romania has been the leading barley exporter, at 1.52 million tonnes, followed by France with 683,216 tonnes and Germany with 459,099 tonnes.
Saudi Arabia remained the largest destination for EU barley exports, purchasing 828,042 tonnes (27%), followed by Morocco with 397,768 tonnes, Algeria with 358,280 tonnes, China with 314,748 tonnes and Jordan with 244,577 tonnes.
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Weekly corn imports were recorded at 358,657 tonnes, while the marketing year total for imports amounted to 12.89 million tonnes.
The leading origin for EU corn imports is Ukraine, which supplied 7.26 million tonnes (56%), followed by the US with 2.37 million tonnes, Brazil with 1.62 million tonnes, Canada with 806,048 tonnes and Serbia with 627,700 tonnes.
Spain leads as the top corn importer in the EU, with 4.90 million tonnes, followed by the Netherlands with 2.20 million tonnes, Italy with 1.70 million tonnes and Portugal with 981,839 tonnes.
Export data for Italy remains incomplete for the last ten weeks, according to the European Commission. Commission export data is sometimes incomplete and subject to revision as more data from member states becomes available.
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