Saudi Arabia leads in imports of Egyptian grapes in 2022

In 2022 Saudi Arabia became the biggest importer of grapes from Egypt, leaving behind the Netherlands, the previous year’s leader, according to EastFruit. Furthermore, Saudi Arabia showed the most active growth rates of imports from Egypt, with trade to have grown manyfold over the past years!

In 2018-2022 Egypt managed to more than quadruple its table grape exports to Saudi Arabia, and their volumes were averagely growing by 45% annually. As a result, Saudi Arabia, with imports of 29,000 tonnes, became the largest importer of grapes from Egypt, leaving behind the Netherlands and the UK with their respective imports of 26,000 tonnes each. Remarkably, in 2021, the UK and the Netherlands ranked 1^st and 2^nd in the list of the biggest importers of Egyptian grapes.

Growing exports of table grapes from Egypt were one of the main reasons for the rise in Saudi Arabia’s total imports of these fruits. In 2018-2022, Saudi Arabia raised its total imports of grapes by almost 40%, with only Italy having the growth rates comparable to Egyptian ones.