date:Sep 13, 2017
nitary grounds) for June, the first month when the EU imports significant volumes of citrus fruits from South Africa, the EU imported 53,326 tonnes. Of these, 42,979 tonnes, about 80%, arrived through the Netherlands. In the same month of the previous campaign, only 54% of the citrus fruits imported by the EU arrived through the Netherlands, which represents an increase of 26 percentage points.
Despite the fact that the Netherlands is, by far, the main gateway to South Africa's citrus fruit, in