Italy, Spain, Tunisia America’s top olive oil suppliers

Spain’s loss was Turkey’s gain last season in the world’s biggest olive oil market — the United States — where total imports slipped 6% on 2011/12. Spain saw its sales to the US plummet from nearly 93,000 to just under 59,000 tons, as its share of US imports shrank from nearly thirty to just under 20%. The International Olive Council (IOC), which reported the figures in its latest newsletter, said this was probably due to the drought-induced 62% drop in Spanish olive oil production in 2012/13.