After undertaking a tour of Africa to try to deal with the migration crisis, the President of the Government, Pedro Sanchezcontinues his international agenda. Since this Sunday, he is in China, for a trip that will last until Thursday and will include a meeting with the Prime Minister. Li Qiang and the president Xi Jinping.
While the previous visit (2023) aimed to sign agreements in the areas of education, sport and agriculture, this year’s visit is deeply marked by the imposition of Brussels imposes tariffs on Chinese electric carsas well as the subsequent investigation announced by China in European pork imports. And although pork is the main product exported by Spain to China, it is not the only one.
According to him Bilateral Report: China 2023According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, exports to China represented 2.7% of Spanish exports to the world, with the Asian country being the first. 9th buyer (1,882 million euros and 854,099 tonnes). However, agricultural and fishing exports decreased by more than a quarter compared to the previous year, when 1,269,881 tonnes were exported, for a value of 2,554 million euros.
What we export to China
THE pork This is the main product exported by Spain to China, although its commercial weight has decreased considerably in recent years. While in 2021 meat was exported for more than two billion, in 2023 it amounted to 682 million. However, Spain is the second country that exports the most pork to China, behind Brazil.
After pork, Spain exported ‘edible offal of cattle, pigs, sheep and goats“worth 501 million euros, frozen fish worth 72 million and olive oilfor 70. Wines and musts, fruit juices, beers as well as milk and cream were also imported for values exceeding 30 million euros.
What we import from China
On the other side of the scale, the most imported products from China in 2023 were “cooked, oxidized and dehydrated fats and oils»worth 177 million. With the canned fish (113) and the pepper (104) are the only three products whose import value exceeds 100 million euros.
After that, the meat fresh, chilled or frozen fish It ranks fourth in imports, with a value of 90 million; mollusks (83) and the crustaceans (81) exceed eighty million, while below that appear products such as vegetable juices and extracts, canned legumes and vegetables or sunflower seeds.
In total, Spain imported 631,793 tonnes of products from China in 2023, for a value of 1,381 million euros, so that the the trade balance was 500 million positive for Spain.
