The Tunisian authorities have announced that the launch date of the date export season to the Moroccan market will be set this Monday, October 20, during a meeting with industry professionals.
Moroccan farmers denounce the massive import of Tunisian dates that they suspect come from Algeria. They point to the poor quality of this product, calling for measures to be taken to protect domestic production and put an end to this unfair competition.
Faced with a persistent drought that weakens its crops, Morocco is turning to foreign countries for its soft wheat supply. France is emerging as the main supplier to the kingdom, with 3.5 million tons planned for the 2025-2026 season.
Morocco has just suspended the import of live cattle from Spain due to the appearance of a contagious skin virus in cattle in Catalonia. A decision that could lead to a surge in prices.
Spanish producers fear an increase in tomato exports produced in the Moroccan Sahara to European markets, following the new trade agreement between Morocco and the European Union (EU).
The recent demonstrations by young people that have taken place in recent days in Morocco, initiated by the GenZ 212 collective, which have resulted in three deaths and hundreds of injuries, are worrying Spain, which estimates that an escalation of tensions would affect its trade relations with the kingdom and cause it to lose 21.178 billion euros.
Younes Maâmar, former CEO of the National Office of Electricity (ONE), alerted the authorities to a fraud involving the massive import of Chinese solar panels sold with a power output 25% lower than advertised, causing huge financial losses to investors and the state.
The Moroccan tomato is still in the sights of French farmers who do not wish for a resumption of the fishing and agricultural trade agreements between the EU and Morocco.
The information relayed in the European press and Moroccan media concerning a general suspension of imports of Moroccan cherry tomatoes following a health alert issued in the Netherlands is false.
Despite a popular protest movement in Morocco calling for the severing of ties with Israel, official international trade data for the year 2024 shows a different economic reality. According to statistics from the United Nations trade database (UN COMTRADE), the volume of Moroccan exports to Israel reached $141.55 million.
The French are facing a shortage of sardines generally imported from Morocco. Several factors explain this scarcity of the product.
Border Police (PAF) officers, in coordination with specialist technicians from Argos, a vehicle theft detection organization, and the Sète police station, are conducting operations in the transit area of the Orsetti train station in Sète, targeting flows to Algeria. But the operations are mainly focused on flows to Morocco.