PROVIDING HIGH QUALITY, VALUE-ADDED FOOD AND DRINKS
of the world’s consumers live outside the EU
+90%
Meeting consumer expectations
Qualitie
s of EU food & drink
Product variety and safety
Produced from safe and sustainable agricultural raw materials respecting high environmental and social standards
Tradition, innovation, know-how
markets+200
+70 globalpartners
EU trade agreements
with
trade balance€36 billion
share of total EU agri-food exportswhich are manufactured80%
+4% exportsper year on average, for 2014-2018 period
*2018 figures
€20.4 billionUnited States
WORLD’S N° 1 FOOD AND DRINKEXPORTER
TOP 5 EXPORT MARKETS
€110 billionEXPORTS*
€74 billionIMPORTS*
€10 billionChina
€6 billionSwitzerland
€5.5 billionJapan
Russia€4.7 billion
TO THE EU FOOD AND DRINK INDUSTRY
WHY INTERNATIONALTRADE MATTERS
500,000
+ additional jobs in agri-foodactivities outside the EU
EU JOBS SUPPORTED BY EXPORTS OF THE EU FOOD AND DRINK INDUSTRY
1.6 million
in the food and drink industry
in primary industries447,000
OPPORTUNITIES FOR EU COMPANIES
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Eurostat (Comext) / "EU exports to the world: effects on Employment", European Commission, 2018.
EU food and drink companies export directly outside the EU
are small and medium-sized enterprises91%
1 in 10
of which
in services industries509,000
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