Year over year, worldwide exports of garlic accelerated by 27.5% compared to $3.43 billion starting from 2023.
Remarkable for its sharp and pungent taste resembling horse radish or minced onions combined with chives, garlic is a popular seasoning ingredient. Raw or cooked garlic cloves are also used for medicinal purposes in many cultures.
The world’s 5 biggest exporters of garlic are mainland China, Spain, Argentina, Netherlands and Malaysia. Collectively, those 5 major suppliers earned 91.5% of revenues earned for garlic sold on international markets during 2024. Such a high percentage indicates an intensely concentrated cohort of garlic suppliers.
From a continental perspective, countries in Asia sold three-quarters (75%) of the world’s garlic exports during 2024 with shipments valued at $3.3 billion. In second place were exporters based in Europe at 16.8% while another 5.8% of global garlic shipments originated from Latin America excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean.
Smaller percentages came from sellers in North America (1.4%), Africa (0.9%) then Oceania’s New Zealand, Australia and Fiji (0.04%).
For research purposes, the 6-digit Harmonized Tariff System code prefix for garlic is 070320.
Top Garlic Exports by Country
Below are the 15 countries that exported the highest dollar value worth of garlic during 2024.
- mainland China: US$3.2 billion (72.1% of total garlic exports)
- Spain: $475.5 million (10.9%)
- Argentina: $179.9 million (4.1%)
- Netherlands: $144.3 million (3.3%)
- Malaysia: $47.8 million (1.1%)
- France: $44.5 million (1%)
- Peru: $40.4 million (0.9%)
- Mexico: $38.7 million (0.9%)
- Egypt: $36.2 million (0.8%)
- Italy: $34.4 million (0.8%)
- Chile: $32 million (0.7%)
- United States: $22.1 million (0.5%)
- Myanmar: $18.6 million (0.4%)
- Afghanistan: $13.8 million (0.3%)
- Uzbekistan: $8.8 million (0.2%)
By value, the listed 15 countries shipped 98.1% of global garlic exports in 2024.
Among the top exporters, the fastest-growing garlic exporters since 2023 were: Myanmar (up 226%), Uzbekistan (up 211.3%), Malaysia (up 104.3%) and Chile (up 63.6%).
Major suppliers that posted declines in their exported garlic sales were: Afghanistan (down -57.3% from 2023), Mexico (down -6.1%) and Egypt (down -1.4%).
Countries Winning Best Trade Surpluses from Garlic
The following countries posted the highest positive net exports for garlic during 2024. 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 exported garlic and its import purchases for that same commodity.
- mainland China: US$3.2 billion (net export surplus up 33% since 2023)
- Spain: $438.6 million (up 9.4%)
- Argentina: $178.8 million (up 61.2%)
- Netherlands: $54.1 million (up 48.5%)
- Peru: $40.4 million (up 31.7%)
- Egypt: $31.4 million (down -10%)
- Chile: $23 million (up 89.3%)
- Myanmar: $18.6 million (up 226%)
- Afghanistan: $11.6 million (down -50.6%)
- Uzbekistan: $6.4 million (up 165.3%)
- Iran: $2.4 million (down -88.9%)
- Kyrgyzstan: $638,000 (down -23.2%)
- Madagascar: $362,000 (down -37.2%)
- Aruba: $180,000 (reversing a -$601,000 deficit)
- South Korea: $135,000 (reversing a -$817,000 deficit)
Mainland China generated the highest surplus in the international trade of garlic. In turn, this positive cashflow confirms China’s strong competitive advantages for this specific product category.
Countries Posting Largest Trade Deficits from Garlic
The following countries posted the highest negative net exports for garlic during 2024. 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 imported garlic purchases and its exports for that same commodity.
- Indonesia: -US$747.8 million (net export deficit up 15.3% since 2023)
- Vietnam: -$294.7 million (up 158.7%)
- United States: -$291.6 million (up 14%)
- Malaysia: -$266 million (up 26%)
- Bangladesh: -$190 million (up 54%)
- Brazil: -$186.4 million (up 59.4%)
- United Arab Emirates: -$134.1 million (up 482.5%)
- Germany: -$124 million (up 24.5%)
- United Kingdom: -$98.7 million (up 32.3%)
- Italy: -$73.8 million (up 37.1%)
- Canada: -$71.5 million (up 16.6%)
- Nepal: -$68.7 million (up 535.3%)
- Russia: -$68.2 million (up 18.1%)
- Colombia: -$65.8 million (up 47.8%)
- Japan: -$63.3 million (up 15.7%)
Indonesia incurred the highest deficit in the international trade of garlic. In turn, this negative cashflow highlights Indonesia’s competitive disadvantage for this specific product category but also signals opportunities for garlic-supplying countries that help satisfy the powerful consumer demand.
Garlic Exporting Companies
According to global trading platform Alibaba, the following suppliers are examples of garlic-trading exporters. The home-country location for each business is shown within parentheses.
- Algo Imports & Exports (United States)
- Amazon Andes Export SAC (Peru)
- Colned Export SL (Spain)
- Dexta Import & Export (Netherlands)
- Green Point for Import and Export (Egypt)
- Jai Commercial Centre (India)
- Jining Optimum Fruits & Vegetables Co (China)
- Le Vinotier (France)
See also Top Exported Spices by Sales, Weight and Unit Value, Top Ginger Exporters, Onions Exports by Country and Top Sweet Pepper and Chili Pepper Exporters
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Alibaba, Supplier showroom for garlic. Accessed on September 26, 2025
Central Intelligence Agency, The World Factbook Field Listing: Exports – Commodities. Accessed on September 26, 2025
Forbes Global 2000 rankings, The World’s Biggest Public Companies. Accessed on September 26, 2025
International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on September 26, 2025
Investopedia, Net Exports Definition. Accessed on September 26, 2025
Wikimedia Commons organic garlic image by Jennifer Dickert, Garlic, [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)]. Accessed on September 26, 2025
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