The value of exported in-shell walnuts amounted to $1.33 billion in 2019, compared to $2.19 billion for shelled walnuts. The latter accounts for over three-fifths (62.2%) of overall exported walnuts compared to 37.8% for in-shell walnuts.
Among continents, suppliers located in North American countries shipped the highest dollar worth of overall exported walnuts during 2019 with shipments totaling $2.03 billion or 57.7% of the global total. In second place were European exporters at 16.8% while 13% of worldwide walnuts shipments originated from Latin America excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean. Smaller percentages came from Asia (12.2%), Oceania (0.3%) mostly Australia then Africa (0.05%).
For research purposes, the respective 6-digit Harmonized Tariff System code prefixes are 080231 for in-shell walnuts and 080232 for shelled walnuts.
Top Walnuts Exporters by Country
Overall
Below are the 15 countries that exported the highest dollar value worth of combined in-shell and shelled walnuts during 2019.
- United States: US$1.3 billion (35.5% of overall exported walnuts)
- Mexico: $780.2 million (22.1%)
- Chile: $426.4 million (12.1%)
- China: $342.4 million (9.7%)
- Ukraine: $132.2 million (3.7%)
- Germany: $111.4 million (3.2%)
- France: $107.1 million (3%)
- Moldova: $75.9 million (2.2%)
- Netherlands: $50.4 million (1.4%)
- Turkey: $26.2 million (0.74%)
- Romania: $26.2 million (0.74%)
- Argentina: $23.9 million (0.68%)
- Spain: $13.1 million (0.37%)
- Belgium: $12.5 million (0.35%)
- Vietnam: $12.1 million (0.34%)
Among the above countries, the fastest-growing exporters of walnuts since 2015 were: Vietnam (up 303,350%), Argentina (up 3,090%), China (up 467.6%) and France (up 203.5%).
Three major suppliers posted declines in their international sales of exported walnuts: Turkey (down -55.1%), Romania (down -45.9%) and Moldova (down -23.2%).
By value, the listed 15 countries shipped 96.2% of all walnuts exported in 2019.
In-Shell
Below are the 15 countries that exported the highest dollar value worth of in-shell walnuts during 2019.
- United States: US$498.3 million (37.4% of exported in-shell walnuts)
- Mexico: $222.6 million (16.7%)
- China: $221.4 million (16.6%)
- Chile: $201.5 million (15.1%)
- France: $81.5 million (6.1%)
- Ukraine: $17 million (1.3%)
- Argentina: $17 million (1.3%)
- Netherlands: $10.9 million (0.8%)
- Australia: $9.6 million (0.7%)
- Belgium: $7.3 million (0.5%)
- United Arab Emirates: $4.8 million (0.4%)
- Hungary: $4.2 million (0.3%)
- Uzbekistan: $4.04 million (0.3%)
- Kyrgyzstan: $3.96 million (0.3%)
- Spain: $3.9 million (0.3%)
Among the above countries, the fastest-growing exporters of in-shell walnuts since 2015 were: China (up 54,044%), Kyrgyzstan (up 1,899%), Ukraine (up 209%) and Belgium (up 183.2%).
Those countries that posted declines in their international in-shell walnuts sales were led by: United Arab Emirates (down -80.2%), Hungary (down -42.6%), Australia (down -41.5%) and Spain (down -34.2%).
By value, the listed 15 countries shipped 98.1% of all in-shell walnuts exported in 2019.
Shelled
Below are the 15 countries that exported the highest dollar value worth of shelled walnuts during 2019.
- United States: US$755.6 million (34.4% of exported shelled walnuts)
- Mexico: $557.6 million (25.4%)
- Chile: $224.9 million (10.2%)
- China: $120.9 million (5.5%)
- Ukraine: $115.2 million (5.2%)
- Germany: $108.7 million (5%)
- Moldova: $73.3 million (3.3%)
- Netherlands: $39.5 million (1.8%)
- Turkey: $26.2 million (1.2%)
- Romania: $26 million (1.19%)
- France: $25.6 million (1.17%)
- Vietnam: $12.1 million (0.6%)
- Austria: $11 million (0.5%)
- Spain: $9.2 million (0.42%)
- Italy: $8.8 million (0.4%)
Among the above countries, the fastest-growing exporters of shelled walnuts since 2015 were: Vietnam (up 302,925%), Mexico (up 115.2%), China (up 100.5%) and Netherlands (up 64.3%).
Those countries that posted declines in their international sales of shelled walnuts were led by: Turkey (down -55.2%), Romania (down -46.3%), France (down -27.4%) and Moldova, Republic of (down -25.8%).
By value, the listed 15 countries shipped 96.4% of all shelled walnuts exported in 2019.
Companies
Walnut Exporting Companies
According to global trading platform Alibaba, the following suppliers sell walnuts to customers worldwide. The home-country location for each business is shown within parentheses.
- Aldera (Turkey)
- Cucku Enterprises Private Limited (India)
- Gervais Henri Florent (France)
- Ghoenert Verwaltungs GMBH (Germany)
- Healthy Food Ltd (Hong Kong)
- Intertransproduct LLC (Ukraine)
- Land Growers Chile Exportaciones Y Asesorias LtdA (Chile)
- Marandi Trading & Marketing SRL (Romania)
- Mave Enterprises Inc (United States)
- Qingdao Sunfine Co, Ltd (China)
See also Top Almonds Exporters by Country, Grapes Exports by Country and Top Soft Drinks Exporters by Country
Research Sources:
Alibaba, Supplier showroom for walnuts. Accessed on May 24, 2020
Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook Field Listing: Exports – Commodities. Accessed on May 24, 2020
International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on May 24, 2020
Investopedia, Net Exports Definition. Accessed on May 24, 2020
Wikipedia, Walnut. Accessed on May 24, 2020