Overall, the value of tomatoes imported in 2020 increased by 9.7% for all importing countries since 2016 when tomatoes purchases were valued at $8.78 billion. Year over year, the total cost for imported tomatoes expanded by 6.1% from 2019 to 2020.
The biggest international markets (United States, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Russia) bought almost two-thirds (65.7%) worth of imported fresh or chilled tomatoes in 2020.
From a continental perspective, buyer located in European countries bought the highest dollar worth of imported tomatoes during 2020 with purchases valued at $5.8 billion or 60% of the global total. In second place were North American importers at 33.6% while 5.7% of tomatoes imported worldwide were delivered to customers in Asia.
Tinier percentages arrived in Africa (0.34%), Latin America (0.32%) excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean, and Oceania (0.02%) led by Australia.
For research purposes, the 4-digit Harmonized Tariff System code prefix is 0702 for fresh or chilled tomatoes.
Imports of Tomatoes by Country
Top 15
Below are the 15 countries that spent the most on imported tomatoes during 2020.
- United States: US$2.9 billion (30.3% of imported tomatoes)
- Germany: $1.5 billion (16%)
- France: $719.4 million (7.5%)
- United Kingdom: $622.5 million (6.5%)
- Russia: $525.1 million (5.5%)
- Netherlands: $335.3 million (3.5%)
- Canada: $319.1 million (3.3%)
- Poland: $268.6 million (2.8%)
- Spain: $173.7 million (1.8%)
- Sweden: $160.8 million (1.7%)
- Italy: $141.9 million (1.5%)
- Saudi Arabia: $126.7 million (1.3%)
- Romania: $112.7 million (1.2%)
- Czech Republic: $107.2 million (1.1%)
- Switzerland: $96.5 million (1%)
Among the above countries, the fastest-growing markets for tomatoes from 2019 to 2020 were: Saudi Arabia (up 46%), United States (up 20.6%), Switzerland (up 15.5%) and Poland (up 9.8%).
Four countries posted declines in their imported tomatoes purchases namely Russia (down -17.5%), Italy (down -14.6%), Czech Republic (down -5.6%) and United Kingdom (down -4%).
By value, the listed 15 countries purchased 84.8% of all tomatoes imported in 2020.
For a comprehensive listing, please see the section Searchable List of Tomatoes Importer Countries below.
USA
Tomatoes Imported into the United States
America’s global purchases of imported tomatoes totaled US$2.9 billion in 2020. Below are the top suppliers from which the U.S. imported the highest dollar value worth of tomatoes during 2020. Within parenthesis is the percentage change in value for each supplying country from 2019 to 2020.
- Mexico: US$2.5 billion (up 19.6% from 2019)
- Canada: $393.3 million (up 26.6%)
- Guatemala: $21.2 million (up 15.2%)
- Dominican Republic: $19.5 million (up 31%)
- Spain: $1 million (up 407.9%)
- New Zealand: $498,000 (down -14.4%)
- Ecuador: $146,000 (up 24.8%)
- France: $96,000 (no 2019 data)
- Micronesia: $84,000 (no 2019 data)
- Peru: $69,000 (no 2019 data)
- Mauritius: $39,000 (no 2019 data)
- Brazil: $28,000 (no 2019 data)
- Italy: $3,000 (down -25%)
By value, the listed 15 countries shipped 100% of tomatoes imported by the United States in 2020.
Among the above countries, the fastest-growing suppliers of tomatoes to United States from 2019 to 2020 were: Spain (up 407.9%), Dominican Republic (up 31.0%), Canada (up 26.6%) and Ecuador (up 24.8%).
Overall, the value of America’s imported tomatoes accelerated by an average 20.6% from all supplying countries since 2019 when tomatoes purchased cost $2.4 billion.
Germany
Tomatoes Imported into Germany
Germany’s global purchases of imported tomatoes totaled US$1.5billion in 2020. Below are the top 15 suppliers from which Germany imported the highest dollar value worth of tomatoes during 2020. Within parenthesis is the percentage change in value for each supplying country from 2019 to 2020.
- Netherlands: US$824.9 million (up 0.4% from 2019)
- Spain: $373.3 million (up 4.6%)
- Belgium: $105.7 million (up 17.9%)
- Morocco: $93.9 million (up 22.6%)
- France: $49.5 million (up 202.7%)
- Italy: $45.9 million (up 17.1%)
- Tunisia: $19.6 million (up 316.1%)
- Poland: $13.6 million (up 30.9%)
- Turkey: $7.4 million (up 72.1%)
- Senegal: $2.3 million (up 85%)
- Croatia: $1.7 million (up 39.5%)
- Macao: $704,000 (up 22%)
- Austria: $526,000 (down -49.1%)
- Portugal: $314,000 (down -45.9%)
- Saudi Arabia: $247,000 (down -15.4%)
By value, the listed 15 countries shipped 99.9% of tomatoes imported by Germany in 2020.
Among the above countries, the fastest-growing suppliers of tomatoes to Germany from 2019 to 2020 were: Tunisia (up 316.1%), France (up 202.7%), Senegal (up 85.0%) and Turkey (up 72.1%).
Overall, the value of Germany’s imported tomatoes rose by an average 8% from all supplying countries since 2019 when tomatoes purchased cost $1.4 billion.
France
Tomatoes Imported into France
France’s global purchases of imported tomatoes totaled US$719.4 million in 2020. Below are the top 15 suppliers from which France imported the highest dollar value worth of tomatoes during 2020. Within parenthesis is the percentage change in value for each supplying country from 2019 to 2020.
- Morocco: US$472.7 million (up 5.2% from 2019)
- Spain: $128.5 million (down -5.7%)
- Belgium: $50.9 million (up 15.3%)
- Netherlands: $28.9 million (down -12.1%)
- Tunisia: $17.1 million (up 33.6%)
- Italy: $10.1 million (down -6.5%)
- France: $4.5 million (up 18.8%)
- Poland: $2 million (down -69.9%)
- Dominican Republic: $1.8 million (up 5.9%)
- Portugal: $897,000 (down -26.1%)
- Senegal: $609,000 (up 2.2%)
- Germany: $515,000 (down -74.7%)
- United Kingdom: $284,000 (up 17.8%)
- New Zealand: $117,000 (down -83.2%)
- Albania: $109,000 (down -42.9%)
By value, the listed 15 countries shipped 99.9% of tomatoes imported by France in 2020.
Among the above countries, the fastest-growing suppliers of tomatoes to France from 2019 to 2020 were: Tunisia (up 33.6%), France (up 18.8%), United Kingdom (up 17.8%) and Belgium (up 15.3%).
Overall, the value of France’s imported tomatoes increased by an average 2.1% from all supplying countries since 2019 when tomatoes purchased cost $704.4 million.
UK
Tomatoes Imported into the United Kingdom
The United Kingdom’s global purchases of imported tomatoes totaled US$622.5 million in 2020. Below are the top 15 suppliers from which the UK imported the highest dollar value worth of tomatoes during 2020. Within parenthesis is the percentage change in value for each supplying country from 2019 to 2020.
- Netherlands: US$251.2 million (down -11.1% from 2019)
- Spain: $135.8 million (down -11.1%)
- Morocco: $119 million (up 22%)
- Germany: $45.9 million (up 2.3%)
- France: $28.9 million (down -3.1%)
- Belgium: $18.7 million (up 0.3%)
- Italy: $11.3 million (up 6.4%)
- Portugal: $6.7 million (up 2.9%)
- Poland: $1.6 million (down -29%)
- Senegal: $1.6 million (up 79%)
- Ireland: $921,000 (down -27.6%)
- Egypt: $394,000 (up 49.8%)
- Turkey: $340,000 (up 359.5%)
- Greece: $32,000 (down -77.9%)
- Lithuania: $32,000 (down -77.9%)
By value, the listed 15 countries shipped 99.996% of tomatoes imported by the United Kingdom in 2020.
Among the above countries, the fastest-growing suppliers of tomatoes to the United Kingdom from 2019 to 2020 were: Turkey (up 359.5%), Senegal (up 79%), Egypt (up 49.8%) and Morocco (up 22%).
Overall, the value of United Kingdom’s imported tomatoes fell by an average -4% from all supplying countries since 2019 when tomatoes purchased cost $648.4 million.
Searchable List of Tomatoes Importer Countries in 2020
The top 100 most valuable markets for imported tomatoes are listed in the automated database below. Combined, those tomatoes-importing nations accounts for 99.9% of importing nations in 2020.
| Rank | Importer | Imported Tomatoes (US$) | 2019-20 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | United States | $2,918,319,000 | +20.6% |
| 2. | Germany | $1,540,501,000 | +8% |
| 3. | France | $719,404,000 | +2.1% |
| 4. | United Kingdom | $622,465,000 | -4% |
| 5. | Russia | $525,128,000 | -17.5% |
| 6. | Netherlands | $335,331,000 | +7.3% |
| 7. | Canada | $319,139,000 | +4.4% |
| 8. | Poland | $268,647,000 | +9.8% |
| 9. | Spain | $173,684,000 | +1.6% |
| 10. | Sweden | $160,832,000 | +1.2% |
| 11. | Italy | $141,858,000 | -14.6% |
| 12. | Saudi Arabia | $126,695,000 | +46% |
| 13. | Romania | $112,710,000 | +5.5% |
| 14. | Czech Republic | $107,226,000 | -5.6% |
| 15. | Switzerland | $96,483,000 | +15.5% |
| 16. | Belgium | $94,604,000 | -10.4% |
| 17. | Austria | $87,423,000 | -7.3% |
| 18. | Denmark | $78,801,000 | +2.1% |
| 19. | Ukraine | $77,892,000 | +56.4% |
| 20. | Finland | $70,690,000 | +10% |
| 21. | Pakistan | $64,547,000 | +51.6% |
| 22. | Norway | $62,034,000 | +5.7% |
| 23. | Bulgaria | $60,574,000 | +12.7% |
| 24. | Ireland | $52,268,000 | +8.7% |
| 25. | Slovakia | $45,653,000 | -0.7% |
| 26. | Portugal | $44,317,000 | -8.7% |
| 27. | Vietnam | $41,847,000 | +3874% |
| 28. | Lithuania | $41,033,000 | +1.2% |
| 29. | Kazakhstan | $38,917,000 | -0.9% |
| 30. | United Arab Emirates | $37,289,000 | -56.9% |
| 31. | Belarus | $36,104,000 | -37% |
| 32. | Singapore | $35,964,000 | +7.2% |
| 33. | Japan | $34,994,000 | +0.4% |
| 34. | Latvia | $32,542,000 | +2.9% |
| 35. | Hungary | $31,121,000 | +18.2% |
| 36. | Israel | $29,778,000 | +7.3% |
| 37. | Serbia | $28,783,000 | +20% |
| 38. | Syrian Arab Republic | $26,912,000 | +150.6% |
| 39. | Estonia | $21,391,000 | +12.5% |
| 40. | Hong Kong | $19,936,000 | -1% |
| 41. | Moldova | $18,469,000 | +19.8% |
| 42. | El Salvador | $18,268,000 | +2.5% |
| 43. | Slovenia | $17,890,000 | +1.1% |
| 44. | Luxembourg | $16,981,000 | +4.8% |
| 45. | Bangladesh | $16,817,000 | +28.8% |
| 46. | Croatia | $13,647,000 | -30.2% |
| 47. | Qatar | $13,270,000 | -50% |
| 48. | Greece | $12,313,000 | -26.4% |
| 49. | Iraq | $12,285,000 | -44.3% |
| 50. | Bosnia/Herzegovina | $9,419,000 | -10.1% |
| 51. | Kyrgyzstan | $7,832,000 | -7.8% |
| 52. | Kenya | $7,752,000 | +9713% |
| 53. | Kuwait | $6,140,000 | -82.3% |
| 54. | Mauritania | $5,965,000 | +596400% |
| 55. | Georgia | $4,622,000 | -14% |
| 56. | Montenegro | $4,502,000 | -21.2% |
| 57. | Oman | $4,425,000 | -69% |
| 58. | Turkey | $4,346,000 | +251.1% |
| 59. | North Macedonia | $4,166,000 | +30.2% |
| 60. | Nepal | $3,814,000 | -16.7% |
| 61. | Afghanistan | $3,670,000 | -72.5% |
| 62. | Paraguay | $3,424,000 | +270.2% |
| 63. | Botswana | $3,156,000 | +23.6% |
| 64. | Iceland | $2,656,000 | -14.9% |
| 65. | South Africa | $2,649,000 | +94.9% |
| 66. | Macao | $2,615,000 | +1.7% |
| 67. | Bahrain | $2,587,000 | -80.9% |
| 68. | Malta | $2,513,000 | -25.6% |
| 69. | Armenia | $2,415,000 | +3.6% |
| 70. | Somalia | $2,101,000 | -62.9% |
| 71. | Brunei Darussalam | $1,934,000 | +50.9% |
| 72. | Djibouti | $1,874,000 | -9.9% |
| 73. | Aruba | $1,845,000 | -16.9% |
| 74. | Lesotho | $1,785,000 | +18.6% |
| 75. | Cyprus | $1,598,000 | +26.6% |
| 76. | Mozambique | $1,546,000 | -6.6% |
| 77. | Bahamas | $1,373,000 | +96.4% |
| 78. | Bermuda | $1,336,000 | +7.3% |
| 79. | Chile | $1,304,000 | +109.6% |
| 80. | Maldives | $1,298,000 | -78.3% |
| 81. | Libya | $1,294,000 | -6.7% |
| 82. | Malaysia | $1,017,000 | +0.9% |
| 83. | Namibia | $1,003,000 | -31.8% |
| 84. | Cayman Islands | $957,000 | +8.6% |
| 85. | Albania | $942,000 | -14.6% |
| 86. | Argentina | $841,000 | +1811% |
| 87. | Azerbaijan | $805,000 | +199.3% |
| 88. | New Caledonia | $776,000 | +9.6% |
| 89. | Mongolia | $704,000 | +334.6% |
| 90. | Seychelles | $646,000 | -55.8% |
| 91. | Australia | $604,000 | -58.1% |
| 92. | Andorra | $574,000 | -14.2% |
| 93. | Eswatini | $562,000 | -8.8% |
| 94. | Faroe Islands | $534,000 | +6.2% |
| 95. | South Sudan | $500,000 | 0% |
| 96. | Gibraltar | $452,000 | -5.4% |
| 97. | Trinidad/Tobago | $412,000 | -28.8% |
| 98. | Curaçao | $399,000 | -67.1% |
| 99. | Turks/Caicos Islands | $393,000 | +12% |
| 100. | Taiwan | $388,000 | -62.6% |
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 that no 2019 data was available.
See also Tomatoes Exports by Country, America’s Top Trading Partners and Top Imported Fruits Most Loved by Americans
Research Sources:
Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook Field Listing: Imports – Commodities. Accessed on June 26, 2021
International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on June 26, 2021
Investopedia, Net Exports Definition. Accessed on June 26, 2021
Wikipedia, Tomato. Accessed on June 26, 2021
