Morocco olive oil exports surge, Spain fourth largest importer

The kingdom is pursuing its agrifood expansion at a relentless pace. Already firmly established on the European market through massive exports of tomatoes, avocados, cucumbers and berries, the country is successfully tackling liquid gold. This breakthrough is raising concerns among producers in the Old Continent, facing a neighbor who is capitalizing on highly advantageous European trade preferences. These legal facilities allow it to offer prices inaccessible to Spanish farmers, especially as Morocco’s sector is intensively modernizing its olive groves and pressing equipment to multiply its efficiency.

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The 2025/2026 season marks a genuine historical turning point in Iberian trade. Over the months of January and February 2026, Moroccan volumes shipped to the peninsula exploded, rising from 55 tonnes to 2,963 tonnes. The country thus captures nearly 7.5% of market share, triple the previous year, a trend reported by El Debate. This leap forward allows Morocco to move from tenth to fourth place among Spain’s importers, positioning itself directly in the wake of Tunisia, Portugal and Italy.

This exponential growth is based on exceptional harvest forecasts. Morocco’s olive interprofessional body anticipated a production of 200,000 tonnes for this season, crushing the 90,000 tonnes recorded in 2024. This abundance stems from a harvest valued at two million tonnes of olives, compared to 950,000 in the previous reference. With this unprecedented yield, Morocco’s sector generates a exportable surplus of 60,000 tonnes, a formidable commercial weapon to flood the European Union.

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Facing this offensive, the Spanish market is massively absorbing this new supply. At the beginning of 2026, Spain imported a total of over 39,000 tonnes of oil. Although the quality of Moroccan production still falls short of Iberian quality standards, its extreme price competitiveness proves formidable and permanently reshapes the global balance of the liquid gold industry.