PARIS: European Union soft wheat exports since the start of the 2025/26 season in July reached 10.80 million metric tons by December 21, compared with 10.52 million tons the previous week and down 2percent from a year earlier, European Commission data showed on Tuesday.
EU barley exports totalled 5.07 million tons, compared with 5.01 million tons a week earlier and up 130percent from the corresponding period of 2024/25.
In imports, the volume of maize shipped into the EU so far this season had reached 7.81 million tons, against 7.49 million a week earlier and down 21percent year on year.
However, the Commission said that grain export data remained incomplete since the beginning of 2024 for France and since the beginning of the 2023/24 marketing year for Bulgaria and Ireland. It added that import and export data for Poland has been missing since October 2025.
A breakdown of this season’s volumes showed that Romania remains the largest EU soft wheat exporter with 3.51 million tons exported so far, followed by France (3.45 million tons), Lithuania (1.25 million tons), Germany (0.82 million tons) and Latvia (0.64 million tons).
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