According to EastFruit, Egypt has doubled its exports of frozen strawberries to the EU market over the past five years and continued to increase its exports this year. In the first seven months of this year, the export of these berries in frozen form from Egypt to EU countries reached a record level for this period.
From January to July 2023, a total of 95,000 tons of Egyptian frozen strawberries were imported into EU countries, which is 5% higher than in the same period of the previous year and one and a half times higher than the average for the previous five years! However, only in May and June of this year, exports from Egypt to the EU were lower than last year, while in other months it significantly exceeded it.
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It is worth noting that last year Egypt accounted for almost two-thirds of the import of frozen garden strawberries into the EU from non-member countries. The EU itself is the largest sales market for frozen garden strawberries in the world, and imports of this product reached 207 thousand tons in 2022. However, in the first seven months of 2023, total imports into the EU decreased to a three-year minimum, amounting to 135,000 tons.
Egypt and Morocco remain the two key exporting countries of frozen strawberries to the EU. However, Morocco’s share is actively decreasing and is likely to reach a minimum in recent years in 2023. For example, from January to July of this year, Morocco exported only 31,000 tons of frozen strawberries to EU countries, which is more than three times less than Egypt’s supply. July is a month when exports of frozen strawberries from Morocco to the EU decline, while the period of relatively active supplies from Egypt continues until October-November.
The share of other non-EU countries in the import structure remained relatively small. For the first seven months of this year, EU countries imported 3,4000 tons of frozen strawberries from Turkey, 3,3000 tons from Serbia, and 1,600 thousand tons from Ukraine. The supply volumes from each of the remaining countries did not exceed a thousand tons.
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