July, 2002
Total
Trade: $3.9 billion
Vegetable Seeds and the Netherlands -- World trade in
planting seeds in marketing year 2000/01 (July-June) was $3.9
billion. ‘Vegetable seeds’ (H.S. 120991) was the largest segment at
$1.1 billion, accounting for 27% of the total. The Netherlands was
the largest exporter ($296 million) and importer of vegetable seeds
($115 million), claiming almost 30% of world vegetable seed exports
and 27% of world imports. The Netherlands is the world’s second
largest exporter and third largest importer of seeds overall and
vegetable seeds account for half of all Dutch seed exports and 45%
of all Dutch seed imports. Over half of Dutch vegetable seed exports
were to other EU members, while the U.S. accounted for 5%, Turkey
4%, and Poland 3%. Dutch vegetable seed imports came largely from
France (21%), the U.S. (17%) and Israel (16%).
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Key Players -- The U.S. was the world’s largest seed exporter
and importer when EU members are considered individually. Canada,
Chile, Argentina and Japan were the most important non-EU
competitors. The U.S. imported 31% of Canadian seed exports, 21% of
Chile’s, 5% of Argentina’s and 4% of Japan’s seed exports. Mexico,
Canada, Japan and Korea were the world’s largest foreign, non-EU
markets. Last marketing year, the U.S. had an 88% share of Canadian
seed imports, 86% of Mexican seed imports, 40% of Japanese and 27%
of Korean seed imports.
