Among continents, suppliers in Europe sold the highest dollar worth of exported watermelons on international markets during 2019 with shipments valued at $840.2 million or over half (54.1%) of worldwide exports.
In second place were North American exporters at 16.7% whereas 10.7% of total watermelon shipments originated from Latin America (10.7%) excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean ahead of Asia (9.9%), and Africa (7.8%). The laggard was Oceania (0.7%) mostly Australia.
For research purposes, the 6-digit Harmonized Tariff System code prefix is 080711 for fresh watermelons.
Watermelons Exports by Country
Countries
Below are the 15 countries that exported the highest dollar value worth of watermelons during 2019.
- Spain: US$473.9 million (30.5% of exported watermelons)
- Mexico: $143.8 million (9.3%)
- United States: $115.3 million (7.4%)
- Italy: $109.3 million (7%)
- Morocco: $98 million (6.3%)
- Netherlands: $95.1 million (6.1%)
- Greece: $63 million (4.1%)
- Honduras: $50 million (3.2%)
- Brazil: $43.9 million (2.8%)
- Vietnam: $41.4 million (2.7%)
- China: $40.4 million (2.6%)
- Costa Rica: $29 million (1.9%)
- France: $26 million (1.7%)
- Panama: $20.1 million (1.3%)
- Malaysia: $18.8 million (1.2%)
By value, the listed 15 countries shipped 88.1% of global watermelons exported in 2019.
Among the top exporters, the fastest-growing exporters of watermelons since 2015 were: Honduras (up 1,165%), Morocco (up 205.6%), Vietnam (up 172.4%) and Costa Rica (up 106.1%).
Three countries posted declines in their exported watermelons sales: Mexico (down -56.1%), United States (down -8.1%) and Malaysia (down -2.1%).
Advantages
The following countries posted the highest positive net exports for watermelons during 2019. Investopedia defines net exports as the value of a country’s total exports minus the value of its total imports. Thus, the statistics below present the surplus between the value of each country’s watermelon exports and its import purchases for that same commodity.
- Spain: US$425.4 million (net export surplus up 38.7% since 2015)
- Mexico: $143.2 million (down -56.2%)
- Morocco: $98 million (up 205.7%)
- Italy: $72.6 million (up 51.8%)
- Greece: $62.2 million (up 29.4%)
- Honduras: $50 million (up 1,236%)
- Brazil: $43.9 million (up 62.3%)
- Vietnam: $35 million (up 136.6%)
- Costa Rica: $29 million (up 106.6%)
- Panama: $20 million (up 42%)
- Malaysia: $18.6 million (no 2015 data)
- Guatemala: $18.4 million (down -22.7%)
- Iran: $14.6 million (down -88.5%)
- Senegal: $13.3 million (up 106.2%)
- Australia: $10.3 million (up 117.3%)
Spain earned the highest surplus in the international trade of watermelons. In turn, this positive cashflow confirms Spain’s strong competitive advantage for this specific product category.
Opportunities
The following countries posted the highest negative net exports for watermelons during 2019. Investopedia defines net exports as the value of a country’s total exports minus the value of its total imports. Thus, the statistics below present the deficit between the value of each country’s watermelon import purchases and its exports for that same commodity.
- United States: -US$294.9 million (net export deficit up 25.3% since 2015)
- Germany: -$270.8 million (up 39.8%)
- France: -$114.9 million (up 55.9%)
- Canada: -$108.2 million (down -8.1%)
- United Kingdom: -$93.1 million (up 46.2%)
- Poland: -$59.3 million (up 63.3%)
- Czech Republic: -$36.7 million (up 41.9%)
- Netherlands: -$25.8 million (up 149.5%)
- Sweden: -$23.5 million (up 28.4%)
- Switzerland: -$23.5 million (up 21.8%)
- Austria: -$21.1 million (up 2.4%)
- Denmark: -$20 million (up 63.2%)
- Belgium: -$17.7 million (up 81.3%)
- Norway: -$17 million (up 1.4%)
- Slovakia: -$16.5 million (up 34.5%)
Overtaking Germany in 2019, the United States of America incurred the highest deficit in the international trade of watermelons. In turn, this negative cashflow highlights America’s competitive disadvantage for this specific product category but also signals opportunities for watermelon-supplying countries that help satisfy the powerful consumer demand.
Companies
Watermelons Exporting Companies
According to global trading platform Alibaba, the following companies are also examples of watermelon-trading companies located in the country shown within parentheses.
- 3GM (United States)
- AA Group, S COOP (Spain)
- Agronest (Mexico)
- AMOT-ADEX Internacional, Importacao e Exportacao LTDA (Brazil)
- Cooperative Lukus (Morrocco)
- Euro-Piramis Bt. (Hungary)
- Golden Aroma Agr Sdn. BHD (Malaysia)
- Hoang Tho Co Ltd (Vietnam)
- Samouilidis Josef (Greece)
- Yunnan Chuntian Agricultural Products Co Ltd (China)
Searchable List of Watermelon Exporting Countries in 2019
You can change the presentation order by clicking the triangle icon at the top of any of the columns below. An entry of 0% in the right-most column means no 2018 data was available.
| Rank | Exporter | Watermelon Exports (US$) | 2018-9 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Spain | $473,850,000 | -5.5% |
| 2. | Mexico | $143,787,000 | -49.6% |
| 3. | United States | $115,322,000 | -6.3% |
| 4. | Italy | $109,349,000 | -13% |
| 5. | Morocco | $98,006,000 | -22.3% |
| 6. | Netherlands | $95,085,000 | -3.5% |
| 7. | Greece | $62,959,000 | -1.2% |
| 8. | Honduras | $49,984,000 | +433.6% |
| 9. | Brazil | $43,892,000 | +38.1% |
| 10. | Vietnam | $41,435,000 | -49.5% |
| 11. | China | $40,437,000 | +2.5% |
| 12. | Costa Rica | $29,042,000 | +20.4% |
| 13. | France | $26,011,000 | -4% |
| 14. | Panama | $20,057,000 | +9.7% |
| 15. | Malaysia | $18,781,000 | -7.1% |
| 16. | Guatemala | $18,427,000 | -38.7% |
| 17. | Iran | $14,636,000 | -90.7% |
| 18. | Senegal | $13,282,000 | +130.9% |
| 19. | Germany | $12,944,000 | -30.6% |
| 20. | Turkey | $12,611,000 | -24.1% |
| 21. | Hungary | $11,555,000 | -31.7% |
| 22. | Australia | $10,413,000 | +31.7% |
| 23. | India | $10,271,000 | +6.5% |
| 24. | Kazakhstan | $6,220,000 | +170.2% |
| 25. | Portugal | $4,990,000 | -54.7% |
| 26. | Albania | $4,842,000 | +38.7% |
| 27. | United Kingdom | $4,636,000 | +26.4% |
| 28. | Peru | $4,226,000 | +17.7% |
| 29. | Russia | $4,092,000 | +3.3% |
| 30. | Tunisia | $3,540,000 | +5% |
| 31. | Lithuania | $3,431,000 | +6.7% |
| 32. | Bulgaria | $3,285,000 | -3.1% |
| 33. | Austria | $3,278,000 | +19% |
| 34. | Czech Republic | $3,132,000 | -18% |
| 35. | South Africa | $3,116,000 | +119.4% |
| 36. | Ukraine | $2,616,000 | -16.7% |
| 37. | Belgium | $2,519,000 | -26.2% |
| 38. | North Macedonia | $2,147,000 | +36% |
| 39. | Myanmar (Burma) | $1,992,000 | -97.6% |
| 40. | Hong Kong | $1,868,000 | +4.3% |
| 41. | Latvia | $1,606,000 | +3.7% |
| 42. | Poland | $1,582,000 | -34.3% |
| 43. | Croatia | $1,426,000 | +42.5% |
| 44. | Yemen | $1,417,000 | -71.3% |
| 45. | Denmark | $1,288,000 | -18.5% |
| 46. | Egypt | $1,163,000 | -85.9% |
| 47. | Serbia | $1,051,000 | +3.1% |
| 48. | Uzbekistan | $1,043,000 | +28.6% |
| 49. | Thailand | $877,000 | +101.6% |
| 50. | Mauritania | $742,000 | +445.6% |
| 51. | Slovenia | $701,000 | -2.5% |
| 52. | Sudan | $480,000 | -64% |
| 53. | Taiwan | $469,000 | +18.4% |
| 54. | Canada | $461,000 | +239% |
| 55. | South Korea | $436,000 | -12.8% |
| 56. | Jordan | $422,000 | -97.6% |
| 57. | Slovakia | $371,000 | +72.6% |
| 58. | Syria | $362,000 | +346.9% |
| 59. | Namibia | $354,000 | +30.1% |
| 60. | Ireland | $350,000 | +14% |
| 61. | Romania | $328,000 | -11.4% |
| 62. | Montenegro | $307,000 | +9.6% |
| 63. | Guyana | $289,000 | -69.3% |
| 64. | Japan | $257,000 | +84.9% |
| 65. | Azerbaijan | $237,000 | +308.6% |
| 66. | Tonga | $178,000 | +32.8% |
| 67. | Guinea-Bissau | $150,000 | +2,043% |
| 68. | Colombia | $142,000 | -12.9% |
| 69. | New Zealand | $115,000 | 0% |
| 70. | Oman | $108,000 | -79.1% |
| 71. | Indonesia | $101,000 | -9% |
| 72. | Trinidad/Tobago | $100,000 | +156.4% |
| 73. | Kyrgyzstan | $97,000 | +177.1% |
| 74. | Luxembourg | $94,000 | -13% |
| 75. | Finland | $94,000 | +51.6% |
| 76. | Bosnia/Herzegovina | $83,000 | +295.2% |
| 77. | Dominican Republic | $67,000 | -86.9% |
| 78. | Estonia | $61,000 | -3.2% |
| 79. | Haiti | $57,000 | 0% |
| 80. | Venezuela | $56,000 | -79.5% |
| 81. | Turkmenistan | $48,000 | +118.2% |
| 82. | Sweden | $48,000 | -12.7% |
| 83. | Pakistan | $47,000 | -95.5% |
| 84. | Afghanistan | $40,000 | -85% |
| 85. | Nicaragua | $39,000 | -70.2% |
| 86. | Gabon | $31,000 | 0% |
| 87. | Moldova | $29,000 | -78.8% |
| 88. | Switzerland | $28,000 | -69.6% |
| 89. | Argentina | $26,000 | -45.8% |
| 90. | Tajikistan | $25,000 | -13.8% |
| 91. | Cyprus | $24,000 | -27.3% |
| 92. | Ghana | $23,000 | 0% |
| 93. | Algeria | $21,000 | -75.6% |
| 94. | Kenya | $15,000 | -85.4% |
| 95. | Singapore | $12,000 | +100% |
| 96. | Cayman Islands | $10,000 | 0% |
| 97. | Philippines | $8,000 | -71.4% |
| 98. | Norway | $5,000 | -94.9% |
| 99. | Mozambique | $4,000 | +300% |
| 100. | Ivory Coast | $4,000 | +100% |
| 101. | Israel | $3,000 | -70% |
| 102. | Georgia | $3,000 | -97.7% |
| 103. | Sri Lanka | $3,000 | -99.4% |
| 104. | Zimbabwe | $3,000 | 0% |
| 105. | Saint Lucia | $2,000 | -66.7% |
| 106. | Suriname | $2,000 | 0% |
| 107. | Bahamas | $2,000 | 0% |
| 108. | Dominica | $2,000 | 0% |
| 109. | Uruguay | $2,000 | -60% |
| 110. | Bermuda | $1,000 | -85.7% |
| 111. | Barbados | $1,000 | 0% |
| 112. | Angola | $1,000 | -83.3% |
| 113. | Antigua/Barbuda | $1,000 | 0% |
| 114. | Chile | $1,000 | 0% |
| 115. | St Vincent/Grenadines | $1,000 | 0% |
| 116. | Pitcairn | $1,000 | 0% |
See also Bananas Exports by Country, Pineapples Exports by Country, Apples Exports by Country, Oranges Exports by Country and Grapes Exports by Country
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Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook Field Listing: Exports – Commodities. Accessed on May 20, 2020
Forbes Global 2000 rankings, The World’s Biggest Public Companies. Accessed on May 20, 2020
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Investopedia, Net Exports Definition. Accessed on May 20, 2020
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