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Spain has experienced an increase of 1.84% in its agri-food trade surplus during the first seven months of the year, reaching 12,054.4 million euros, compared to the same period in 2024, with a rise in exports (+5.9%) and imports (7.4%). The latest monthly foreign trade report published this Tuesday by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Business indicates that exports of food, beverages, and tobacco reached 45,553.1 million euros, while imports stood at 33,498.7 million. The category of fruits, vegetables, and legumes was the one that achieved the highest export value in the first seven months of the year, with 16,613.7 million (+8.9%). This is followed by the export of meat products, with 7,654.9 million (+6.5%), and the export of oils and fats, the only category that registered a decrease in foreign sales, standing at 4,542.4 million (-14.9%). Next are the shipments of fishery products (3,349.0 million and +8%); beverages (3,159.7 million and +4.3%); sugar, coffee, and cocoa ...

It is the fifth event that Spain has registered for highly pathogenic avian influenza in the last decade. Avian influenza has infected 67,000 domestic birds after its reappearance in mid-July in an Extremadura farm, with a sector attentive to the autumn incidence - a time when it usually tends to increase - and with poultry farmers facing expenses of several thousand euros. Since that first outbreak in Ahillones (Badajoz) in a turkey farm, health authorities have declared six in Spain that leave a tally of 67,000 infected birds and about 44,000 culled to prevent the spread of the disease. However, these figures will be updated upwards in the coming days following the confirmation yesterday of another outbreak in a laying hen farm in Olmedo (Valladolid) with a flock of 760,000 birds. This is the fifth event that Spain has registered for highly pathogenic avian influenza in the last decade but it is still far from surpassing the impact that it had on farms starting in August 2022, ...

Agricultural trade exchanges between Spain and China ended in 2024 with a surplus for Spain of just 253 million euros, practically half of what was recorded in 2023 and far from the more than 2,000 million euros in 2020 and 2021. This result is due to the fact that the value of Spanish exports to the Chinese market remained stable while the value of imports into Spain of Chinese products increased by 16.3% and exceeded 1,600 million euros. The value of Spanish exports of pork fell again. Data published by the Ministry of Agriculture on agri-food trade with China last year show a decline not only in the value of pork exports but also of edible offal and other products from pigs, included in other tariff headings. In volume, exports of pork and other pork products stood at 537,159 tons (in 2023 they were around 560,000 tons). The provisional tariffs that China has started to apply to EU -and Spanish- pork could cause a further decline in 2025 in the shipments of pork to that country ...