Walnuts: hit and miss exports
June 20, 2024 at 11:06 AM ,
Der AUDITOR
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Strong demand in Turkey and Europe
While monthly domestic shipments range at a lower 170,000 pounds for inshell walnuts and at a lower 19.5 million pounds for shelled walnuts as compared with May 2023, exports climbed to 11.2 million pounds for inshell walnuts and to 28 million pounds for shelled walnuts. Yet, the inshell walnut shipments only reached 11.4 million pounds in May, which is down on the 11.8 million pounds recorded in may 2023 and shelled walnut shipments only reached 47.4 million pounds as opposed to 53.7 million pounds.
Total shipments, however, speak of a strong season. Domestic inshell shipments range a bit higher than last year at 10.1 million pounds for September 2023 through to May 2024 as compared with the same period in 2022/2023 and domestic shelled walnut shipment are clearly up at 202.4 million pounds. Inshell exports have surged to 301.8 million pounds and shelled walnut exports to 280 million pounds. The US have shipped a total of 311.9 million pounds of inshell walnuts and a total of 483 million pounds of shelled walnuts this season so far. Combined shipments thereby range 23% higher than last year at 795 million pounds. The three leading export destinations, Turkey, Germany and Italy are showing double digit rises, which is also the case for Italy and Spain. Contrary to this, shipments to Japan have slumped by 30%. Japan is, in fact, the only country featuring in the top ten to which exports have declined.
US walnut shipments, inshell and shelled (in 1,000 pounds) |
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Destination |
2022/23 |
2023/24 |
Diff. |
USA |
192,497 |
212,546 |
10.4% |
Turkey |
84,826 |
124,651 |
46.9% |
Germany |
54,402 |
69,664 |
28.0% |
Italy |
28,713 |
49,379 |
72.0% |
Spain |
28,560 |
42,333 |
48.2% |
UAE |
51,725 |
36,098 |
-30.2% |
Japan |
31,628 |
32,871 |
3.9% |
Korea |
25,598 |
31,910 |
24.6% |
India |
10,317 |
24,647 |
138.9% |
Netherlands |
16,980 |
22,239 |
31.0% |
UK |
10,722 |
16,158 |
50.7% |
Others |
108,140 |
132,449 |
22.5% |
Total |
644,108 |
794,945 |
23.4% |
California Walnut Board, 01/09-31/05 |
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