PROVIDING HIGH QUALITY, VALUE-ADDED FOOD AND DRINKS

of the world’s consumers live outside the EU

+90%

Meeting consumer expectations

Qualitie

s of EU food & drink

Product variety and safety

Produced from safe and sustainable agricultural raw materials respecting high environmental and social standards

Tradition, innovation, know-how

markets+200

+70 globalpartners

EU trade agreements

with

trade balance€36 billion

share of total EU agri-food exportswhich are manufactured80%

+4% exportsper year on average, for 2014-2018 period

*2018 figures

€20.4 billionUnited States

WORLD’S N° 1 FOOD AND DRINKEXPORTER

TOP 5 EXPORT MARKETS

€110 billionEXPORTS*

€74 billionIMPORTS*

€10 billionChina

€6 billionSwitzerland

€5.5 billionJapan

Russia€4.7 billion

TO THE EU FOOD AND DRINK INDUSTRY

WHY INTERNATIONALTRADE MATTERS

500,000

+ additional jobs in agri-foodactivities outside the EU

EU JOBS SUPPORTED BY EXPORTS OF THE EU FOOD AND DRINK INDUSTRY

1.6 million

in the food and drink industry

in primary industries447,000

OPPORTUNITIES FOR EU COMPANIES

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Eurostat (Comext) / "EU exports to the world: effects on Employment", European Commission, 2018.

EU food and drink companies export directly outside the EU

are small and medium-sized enterprises91%

1 in 10

of which

in services industries509,000

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