In the last ten campaigns, Spanish tomato exports in the period from October to May, when Moroccan tomatoes to the EU are subjected to an export quota, have decreased from 789.970 tonnes to 632,250 tonnes. Meanwhile, Morocco increased its tomato exports from 257,600 tonnes to 389,300 tonnes. Morocco has been authorized a quota of 257,000 tonnes, plus an additional 28,000 tonnes, for a total of 285,000 tonnes.
Morocco has halved the differential with Spain in volume sales of tomato to the Member States of the European Union (EU), according to data from the Euroestacom (Icex-Eurostat) statistical service, based on the Integrated Tariff of the European Communities.
During the aforementioned period of the 2006/2007 campaign, Spain sold a total of 789,970 tonnes of tomatoes to the EU, while Morocco sold 257,600 tonnes.
Since that campaign, Spanish tomato sales to the European Union have experienced a significant decline, with some ups and downs. In the 2015/2016 campaign, Spain sold 632,250 of tomatoes to the EU between October and May. In the same decade, Morocco has increased its tomato exports to the EU by 51.12 percent, from 257,600 tonnes between October and May 2006/2007 to 389,300 tonnes in the same period of the 2015/2016 campaign.
The difference in Spanish and Moroccan tomato sales to the EU from October to May, has gone from 532,370 tonnes in 2006/2007 to only 242,950 tonnes in 2015/2016, still in favor of Spain.
The tariff quota stipulated in the 2012 Euro-Mediterranean agreement establishes an amount of 225,000 tonnes for the 2011/2012, 233 for the 2012/2013 campaign; 241 for the 2013/2014 campaign, 249 for 2014/2015, and 257,000 tonnes for the 2015/2016 campaign and the subsequent campaigns. Morocco has an additional tariff quota of 28,000 tonnes for the period between November 1 to May 31 each year.
Source: hortoinfo.es