The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, and Natural Environment of the Junta de Extremadura has sent a letter to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food in which it demands to review and, if appropriate, suspend the active improvement regime (TPA) applied to olive oil imports.According to the regional government, this...
The UAGR has stated this Wednesday that it joins the demand of its state Coordinator COAG, considering the veto on the entry of beef and poultry from Brazil as a "delayed but insufficient act of justice."The union recalls that this decision has been adopted "due to the inability to guarantee...
The Community of Farmers and Ranchers of Almendralejo (Clygal) has asked the Junta de Extremadura to request the intervention of the Minister of Agriculture, Luis Planas, before the European Commission in order to eliminate the Active Improvement Regime (TPA) applied to the olive oil sector.This customs instrument, which allows the...
The agrarian organization Asaja Córdoba has welcomed "positively" that the Junta de Andalucía has requested the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to "investigate the impact that the entry of olive oil from Tunisia may be having on the Spanish market".In a statement, the president of Asaja Córdoba, Fernando Adell,...
The counselor of Agriculture, Fishing, Water, and Rural Development in office, Ramón Fernández-Pachecho, has sent this Wednesday a letter to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fishing, and Food in which he requests that the European Commission be asked to suspend the active improvement regime applied to olive oil. The objective is...
The Valencian Association of Farmers (Ava-Asaja) has drawn attention to the chain of food alerts recorded this summer in fruits and vegetables from non-EU countries. The agricultural entity describes as "especially concerning" that the return to routine and the rebound in consumption come after a black August marked by numerous...
The General Index of Export Prices of industrial products increased by 4.4% in July compared to the same month in 2025, which represents its most pronounced increase since February 2023. This rise is mainly driven by the higher cost of energy, according to data released this Friday by the National...
The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Natural Environment has initiated ten sanctioning files and has detected a total of 53 infractions in the controls carried out during 2026 on food from third countries and marketed in the Balearic Islands.According to the regional department in a statement, this year 22 references...
Pork meat and olive oil reinforce in 2025 their position as the products with the greatest economic weight within the exports of the Spanish agri-food and fishing sector, while mollusks and cheeses are among the most relevant items on the import list, according to the "Annual Report on Agri-food and...
The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has communicated a tariff exemption for 90 days for a part of the foreign purchases of ground beef, with a cap of 300,000 tons, with the intention of lowering its cost for consumers."During the next 90 days, the United States will allow...
The Spanish office furniture market reached a value of 425 million euros in 2025, which represents a growth of 6.3% compared to the previous year, according to data from the "Office Furniture" sector study published by the DBK Sectorial Observatory of Informa (a subsidiary of Cesce).According to the analysis, this...
The negative trade balance of Spain with the United States reached 6,697.6 million euros in the first half of the year, which represents a reduction of 5.4% compared to the 7,083.3 million euros recorded in the same period of 2025, according to the Monthly Report on Foreign Trade from the...
The trade deficit rose to almost 32.781 billion euros in the first half of the year, which implies a rebound of 30.5% compared to the same period of the previous year, according to the foreign trade report for June released this Tuesday by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Business.This...
Crude oil purchases by Spain reached 4.326 million tons in June, representing a rebound of 4.7% compared to the same month of the previous year. The United States remained the top supplier, accounting for 21.4% of the total, while shipments from the Middle East barely made up 5.1% of the...
Union of Unions of Farmers and Ranchers has claimed "maximum transparency" in the olive oil market, after warning that a strategy aimed at forcing down the prices at origin of olive oil would be applied, a dynamic that, according to the organization, does not fit the real situation of the...
Asaja has claimed that the obligations weighing on European farmers should also extend, "without exception," to livestock products imported from third countries, when there is barely a month left for the entry into force of the new community regulation on the use of antimicrobials in livestock, as stated in a...
The positive balance of the agri-food trade of the European Union stood at 19.4 billion euros between January and May 2026, that is, 1 billion more than in the same months of the previous year, despite the fact that both exports and imports decreased compared to 2025, according to the...
The association OliveA Tradition and Progress, which groups more than 15,000 olive growers and around 30 cooperatives from Jaén, Córdoba, and Granada, has warned that the current evolution of the prices at origin of olive oil does not obey the usual logic of the market, but rather to "interested commercial...
The General Index of Export Prices of industrial products advanced by 3.3% in June compared to the same month in 2025, thus totaling four consecutive months in positive territory, according to a statement made this Wednesday by the National Institute of Statistics (INE).However, this rise is eight tenths lower than...
The trade balance of Mexico registered in June a surplus of 4.090 million dollars (3.599 million euros), a figure that practically multiplied by eight (695.7%) the positive balance of 514 million dollars (452.3 million euros) recorded in the same month of the previous year, and that also represents a rebound...
The trade surplus of Argentina in the first half of the year multiplied by five (404%), reaching 13.923 million dollars (12.238 million euros), according to a report released by the Chamber of Exporters of the Argentine Republic (CERA).According to this document, sales abroad increased by 24.4%, standing at 49.454 million...
COAG has asked the Secretary General of Agricultural Resources and Food Security, Ana Rodríguez Castaño, to hold a bilateral meeting to jointly analyze that Spain, as a member state of the European Union, can propose to the European Commission in the coming weeks the opening of an investigation. The objective...
Hatta Energy reached in the first half of the year a marketed volume of 1,902.469 million cubic meters of fuel, which represents a 10% advance compared to the same period of the previous year, according to the company itself.In a note, the group, which ranks as the fourth hydrocarbon operator...
Union of Unions of Farmers and Ranchers has pointed out that the beef sector is suffering the impact of the EU-Mercosur agreement, as it is registering declines in the prices of the main markets since the end of April, according to the organization communicated this Tuesday.In this scenario, Union of...
The trade deficit of Spain stood in the first five months of 2026 at 25.094 billion euros, which represents 3.570 billion more than in the same period of 2025 and a year-on-year increase of 16.6%, according to data released by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Business.The coverage rate reached...