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PARIS, March 14 (Reuters) – Soft wheat exports from the European Union in the 2022/23 season that started in July had reached 21.54 million tonnes by March 12, up 8.6% from 19.84 million by the same week in 2021/22, data published by the European Commission on Tuesday showed.
EU barley exports so far in 2022/23 totalled 4.28 million tonnes, down 29% from 6.03 million a year ago, while EU maize imports were at 18.99 million tonnes, 60% above a year-earlier 11.84 million.
However, the Commission said it was still experiencing problems compiling grain trade figures from Germany and Italy.
Export data submitted by Germany from November may be inaccurate following the country’s switch to a new declaration system, while for Italy import data was available only up to Dec. 19, it said in a note.
A breakdown of the EU data showed France remained by far the biggest EU soft wheat exporter this season, with 8.59 million tonnes shipped, followed by Romania with 2.63 million, Germany with 2.50 million, Lithuania with 1.93 million and Latvia with 1.85 million.
The Commission listed the EU’s top five soft wheat export destinations so far in 2022/23 as follows:
2022/23
2021/22
Destination
tonnes
share
tonnes
share
Morocco
3,273,807
15.2%
910,318
4.6%
Algeria
2,942,754
13.7%
3,035,696
15.3%
Nigeria
1,873,015
8.7%
1,489,729
7.5%
Egypt
1,628,206
7.6%
1,942,532
9.8%
Saudi Arabia
1,044,970
4.9%
519,932
2.6%
In maize, Spain remained the EU’s leading importer so far in 2022/23 with 6.62 million tonnes, ahead of the Netherlands at 2.22 million, Portugal with 1.51 million, Hungary with 1.41 million and Poland with 1.28 million, the data showed.
The Commission listed the EU’s five top maize import supplier countries so far in 2022/23 as follows:
2022/23
2021/22
Origin
tonnes
share
tonnes
share
Ukraine
9,658,501
50.9%
6,441,992
54.4%
Brazil
7,669,728
40.4%
3,309,362
28.0%
Canada
649,765
3.4%
590,209
5.0%
Serbia
351,686
1.9%
615,123
5.2%
Russia
199,217
1.0%
338,729
2.9%
(Reporting by Sybille de La Hamaide Editing by Gus Trompiz, David Goodman and Richard Chang)
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