Overall the value of exported oranges appreciated by an average 6.4% for all exporting countries since 2015 when shipments of oranges were worth $4.5 billion. Year over year, the value of globally exported oranges fell by -12.5% from 2018 to 2019.
Among continents, European countries sold the highest dollar value worth of exported oranges during 2019 with shipments worth $2 billion or 42.7% of total exported oranges. In second place were African exporters at 30.1% while 14.4% of worldwide shipments originated from North America. Asia supplied 7.8% worth of oranges, trailed by Oceania (4.6%) mostly Australia, and Latin America (3.4%) excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean.
For research purposes, the 6-digit Harmonized Tariff System code prefix for oranges is 080510.
Oranges Exports by Country
Countries
Below are the 15 countries that sold the highest dollar value worth of oranges on international markets during 2019.
- Spain: US$1.3 billion (26.5% of total exported oranges)
- South Africa: $667.1 million (14%)
- Egypt: $660.9 million (13.8%)
- United States: $526.5 million (11%)
- Netherlands: $303.6 million (6.3%)
- Australia: $221.6 million (4.6%)
- Hong Kong: $142.4 million (3%)
- Greece: $126 million (2.6%)
- Italy: $114.5 million (2.4%)
- Turkey: $91.3 million (1.9%)
- Morocco: $88.4 million (1.8%)
- China: $87.1 million (1.8%)
- Portugal: $82.7 million (1.7%)
- Chile: $74 million (1.5%)
- France: $36.1 million (0.8%)
The listed 15 countries shipped 93.9% of global oranges exported in 2019 by value.
Among the top exporters, the fastest-growing oranges exporters since 2015 were: Hong Kong (up 112.8%), Australia (up 48.8%), Netherlands (up 41%) and Egypt (up 37.1%).
Five countries posted declines in international sales of exported oranges namely: Turkey (down -45.3%), France (down -11.2%), United States (down -5.6%), Spain (down -3.8%) and Portugal (down -0.7%).
Advantages
The following countries posted the highest positive net exports for oranges 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 oranges exports and its import purchases for that same commodity.
- Spain: US$1.2 billion (net export surplus down -4.8% since 2015)
- South Africa: $665.8 million (up 11.7%)
- Egypt: $660.9 million (up 37.1%)
- United States: $334.7 million (down -14.1%)
- Australia: $203.3 million (up 61.8%)
- Greece: $123.2 million (up 6.8%)
- Morocco: $88.3 million (up 35.8%)
- Turkey: $81.3 million (down -48.2%)
- Chile: $71.4 million (up 16.7%)
- Argentina: $29.3 million (up 35.9%)
- Uruguay: $23.6 million (down -13.8%)
- Portugal: $13 million (down -44.9%)
- Tunisia: $9.2 million (down -14.6%)
- Nicaragua: $8.8 million (up 92.4%)
- Zimbabwe: $7.6 million (up 117.9%)
Spain earned the highest surplus in the international trade of oranges. 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 oranges 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 oranges import purchases and its exports for that same commodity.
- France: -US$367.7 million (net export deficit up 7.6% since 2015)
- Germany: -$354.6 million (up 3.8%)
- China: -$312 million (up 274.6%)
- Russia: -$294.5 million (down -1.4%)
- Saudi Arabia: -$208.9 million (up 18.5%)
- South Korea: -$205.1 million (up 18.4%)
- Hong Kong: -$202.4 million (up 20.7%)
- United Kingdom: -$188.9 million (down -1.3%)
- Canada: -$177.6 million (down -1%)
- Netherlands: -$147.6 million (down -6.9%)
- Japan: -$120 million (up 14.9%)
- Belgium: -$95.1 million (up 0.2%)
- Malaysia: -$77.4 million (up 11.1%)
- Switzerland: -$75.7 million (up 5.9%)
- Vietnam: -$65.5 million (up 609%)
France incurred the highest deficit in the international trade of oranges. In turn, this negative cashflow highlights France’s strong competitive disadvantage for this specific product category but also signals opportunities for oranges-supplying countries that help satisfy the powerful consumer demand.
Companies
Oranges Exporting Companies
According to global trading platform Alibaba, the following companies are also examples of oranges-trading companies located in the country shown within parentheses.
- Elkenana Company MAFAZA (Egypt)
- Global Prime Group (PTY) Ltd (South Africa)
- Intron Ltd (Greece)
- Marhayat Trading (Morocco)
- NAFTA Enterprises PTY Ltd (Australia)
- Nova Trading SAC (Peru)
- Pons Redondo Group SLU (Spain)
- Shanxi Qinghe Trading Co, Ltd (China)
- Sunkist Growers co-operative (United States)
Searchable List of Oranges Exporting Countries in 2019
You can change the presentation order by clicking the triangle icon at the top of any of the columns below. An entry of 0% in the right-most column means that no 2018 data was available.
| Rank | Exporter | Exported Oranges (US$) | 2018-9 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Spain | $1,267,878,000 | -4.2% |
| 2. | South Africa | $667,053,000 | -18.6% |
| 3. | Egypt | $660,894,000 | -0.8% |
| 4. | United States | $526,515,000 | -15.8% |
| 5. | Netherlands | $303,560,000 | -8% |
| 6. | Australia | $221,624,000 | -5.8% |
| 7. | Hong Kong | $142,350,000 | -16.2% |
| 8. | Greece | $125,995,000 | -22.1% |
| 9. | Italy | $114,501,000 | -16.8% |
| 10. | Turkey | $91,253,000 | -43.5% |
| 11. | Morocco | $88,416,000 | +5.4% |
| 12. | China | $87,053,000 | -19% |
| 13. | Portugal | $82,669,000 | -27.4% |
| 14. | Chile | $74,035,000 | -11.5% |
| 15. | France | $36,113,000 | -13.4% |
| 16. | Argentina | $31,214,000 | +8.6% |
| 17. | Uruguay | $23,890,000 | +1.9% |
| 18. | Germany | $22,108,000 | -27.3% |
| 19. | India | $21,338,000 | +382.1% |
| 20. | Mexico | $17,697,000 | -36.8% |
| 21. | United Kingdom | $17,036,000 | +4.8% |
| 22. | Slovenia | $12,953,000 | +0.4% |
| 23. | Austria | $9,263,000 | +30.1% |
| 24. | Tunisia | $9,204,000 | -7.4% |
| 25. | Nicaragua | $8,982,000 | -36.2% |
| 26. | Belgium | $8,655,000 | -11.9% |
| 27. | Peru | $8,292,000 | +14.5% |
| 28. | Lithuania | $8,286,000 | -11.6% |
| 29. | Zimbabwe | $7,556,000 | -7.4% |
| 30. | Sweden | $6,685,000 | +46.5% |
| 31. | Colombia | $6,487,000 | +33.6% |
| 32. | Iran | $5,719,000 | -81.3% |
| 33. | Singapore | $5,403,000 | -2.6% |
| 34. | Denmark | $5,283,000 | -17.2% |
| 35. | Eswatini | $4,200,000 | -17% |
| 36. | Malaysia | $3,498,000 | +71.6% |
| 37. | Lebanon | $3,426,000 | -53.8% |
| 38. | Russia | $2,828,000 | +11.6% |
| 39. | Latvia | $2,761,000 | -6.6% |
| 40. | Poland | $2,758,000 | -50.2% |
| 41. | Czech Republic | $2,752,000 | -19.9% |
| 42. | Slovakia | $2,600,000 | +69.3% |
| 43. | Honduras | $2,521,000 | +79.7% |
| 44. | Cyprus | $2,348,000 | +9.2% |
| 45. | Dominican Republic | $2,284,000 | +18.4% |
| 46. | Syria | $2,039,000 | -50.1% |
| 47. | Israel | $2,019,000 | -22.9% |
| 48. | Myanmar (Burma) | $1,803,000 | -32.7% |
| 49. | Pakistan | $1,774,000 | -39.2% |
| 50. | Brazil | $1,563,000 | -86.1% |
| 51. | Georgia | $1,511,000 | +25,083% |
| 52. | Hungary | $1,344,000 | +1,111% |
| 53. | Ireland | $1,308,000 | +114.8% |
| 54. | Bulgaria | $1,067,000 | -54.1% |
| 55. | Luxembourg | $1,033,000 | +5.4% |
| 56. | Taiwan | $993,000 | +72.4% |
| 57. | Thailand | $893,000 | +37% |
| 58. | Bangladesh | $816,000 | +150.3% |
| 59. | New Zealand | $610,000 | -49.8% |
| 60. | Croatia | $562,000 | +440.4% |
| 61. | Jamaica | $540,000 | -6.1% |
| 62. | United Arab Emirates | $538,000 | -98.9% |
| 63. | Belize | $350,000 | +614.3% |
| 64. | Afghanistan | $330,000 | 0% |
| 65. | Belarus | $289,000 | -77.2% |
| 66. | Cuba | $203,000 | -17.5% |
| 67. | Switzerland | $164,000 | +1.9% |
| 68. | Finland | $152,000 | -33.6% |
| 69. | Costa Rica | $133,000 | -1.5% |
| 70. | Romania | $121,000 | +108.6% |
| 71. | Kazakhstan | $83,000 | +232% |
| 72. | Ghana | $76,000 | -88.2% |
| 73. | Japan | $72,000 | +80% |
| 74. | Serbia | $43,000 | -86.6% |
| 75. | Estonia | $39,000 | -9.3% |
| 76. | Bosnia/Herzegovina | $34,000 | -10.5% |
| 77. | Guatemala | $32,000 | +14.3% |
| 78. | Norway | $30,000 | -38.8% |
| 79. | El Salvador | $29,000 | -52.5% |
| 80. | Mauritania | $25,000 | 0% |
| 81. | Iceland | $24,000 | -33.3% |
| 82. | Canada | $24,000 | -35.1% |
| 83. | Zambia | $22,000 | 0% |
| 84. | Namibia | $19,000 | +171.4% |
| 85. | Vietnam | $16,000 | -82.4% |
| 86. | Jordan | $16,000 | -98.3% |
| 87. | Central African Rep | $14,000 | 0% |
| 88. | Uganda | $13,000 | -99.4% |
| 89. | North Macedonia | $13,000 | -67.5% |
| 90. | Ukraine | $12,000 | -33.3% |
| 91. | Kyrgyzstan | $12,000 | -52% |
| 92. | Oman | $11,000 | -99.5% |
| 93. | Saint Helena | $11,000 | 0% |
| 94. | Burkina Faso | $11,000 | 0% |
| 95. | South Korea | $10,000 | -56.5% |
| 96. | Armenia | $10,000 | 0% |
| 97. | Haiti | $10,000 | -56.5% |
| 98. | Algeria | $9,000 | -67.9% |
| 99. | Mozambique | $9,000 | -30.8% |
| 100. | Tanzania | $9,000 | -99.3% |
| 101. | Dominica | $6,000 | -14.3% |
| 102. | Indonesia | $4,000 | +300% |
| 103. | Moldova | $3,000 | -91.4% |
| 104. | Bolivia | $2,000 | 0% |
| 105. | Venezuela | $2,000 | -91.7% |
| 106. | US Minor Outlying Is | $2,000 | -75% |
| 107. | Andorra | $1,000 | 0% |
| 108. | Bermuda | $1,000 | 0% |
| 109. | Botswana | $1,000 | 0% |
| 110. | Guyana | $1,000 | -66.7% |
| 111. | Ecuador | $1,000 | -87.5% |
| 112. | Pitcairn | $1,000 | 0% |
| 113. | St Vincent/Grenadines | $1,000 | 0% |
See also Oranges Imports by Country, Pineapples Exports by Country, Kiwifruit Exports by Country and Lemons Exporters by Country
Research Sources:
Alibaba, Supplier information for oranges. Accessed on May 7, 2020
Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook Field Listing: Exports – Commodities. Accessed on May 7, 2020
Forbes Global 2000 rankings, The World’s Biggest Public Companies. Accessed on May 7, 2020
International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on May 7, 2020
Investopedia, Net Exports Definition. Accessed on May 7, 2020
Wikipedia, Sunkist Growers, Incorporated. Accessed on May 7, 2020
