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Spain olive-oil imports from Morocco jump nearly tenfold while domestic output falls 9 percent
Imports reached 10,384.7 tonnes from January to April, up from 103 tonnes a year earlier. The increase coincides with a strong Moroccan harvest and a modest decline in Spanish output.
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Spain imported 10,384.7 tonnes of olive oil from Morocco between January and April 2026, compared with 103 tonnes in the same period of 2025, according to DataComex figures reported by Euronews. The increase equals 9,979 percent. Morocco supplied 7.48 percent of Spain’s olive-oil imports as of February 2026, up from 2.01 percent a year earlier.
Spanish domestic production for the 2025-2026 season stands at an estimated 1.295 million tonnes. Exports moved in the opposite direction. Spain shipped 673.72 tonnes of olive oil to Morocco in the first four months of 2026, down 75.2 percent from 2,721 tonnes the previous year.
The value of those exports fell from €11.11 million to €2.44 million. Morocco’s own 2025-2026 harvest reached close to 200,000 tonnes, more than double the prior season, the Moroccan Interprofessional Olive Federation estimated. Lower prices and EU preferential trade terms supported the rise in shipments.
Across the EU, imports of Moroccan olive oil grew 712.6 percent between October 2025 and March 2026, reaching 10,312 tonnes. Tunisia remained the largest non-EU supplier, accounting for 81 percent of such imports. Spanish production for the current season is estimated 9 percent below the previous year, the Ministry of Agriculture said.
In the first two months of 2026 Spain took in 39,624.61 tonnes of olive oil overall, with Tunisia, Portugal and Italy supplying larger volumes than Morocco.
