{"id":349227,"date":"2024-03-28T12:42:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T11:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/03\/28\/aumenta-export-cioccolato-ue-2023\/"},"modified":"2024-04-04T12:32:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-04T10:32:44","slug":"made-in-eu-chocolate-exports-increase-867-thousand-tons-sold-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/03\/28\/made-in-eu-chocolate-exports-increase-867-thousand-tons-sold-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Made in EU&#8217; chocolate exports increase: 867 thousand tons sold in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; A treat for the palate, an ally against bad moods, a temptation, and, for many, a real passion: whether you prefer milk or dark chocolate, there is no shortage of chocolate, and trade data confirm this. According to<span lang=\"en\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/web\/main\/about-us\/who-we-are\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eurostat<\/a>\u00a0data, <strong>EU member states exported about 867 thousand tons of chocolate and chocolate bars to third countries, a 2 percent increase<\/strong> compared with 2022 (852 thousand tons). Not only that, compared with 2013, exports increased by 35 percent (643 thousand tons).<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"flourish-embed flourish-chart\" data-src=\"visualisation\/17341782\"><script src=\"https:\/\/public.flourish.studio\/resources\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p><strong>Germany (221 thousand tons, or 26 percent of total exports), the Netherlands (123 thousand tons, 14 percent), and Poland ( 96 thousand tons, or 13 percent) were the main exporters of the tasty product. <\/strong>Belgium (96 thousand tons or 11 percent) and Italy (92 thousand tons or 11 percent) followed. In 2023, these five EU countries accounted for three-quarters of total EU exports of chocolate and chocolate bars abroad.<\/p>\n<p>The main European Union customers were the\u00a0<span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">United Kingdom (sales of 315 thousand tons, 36 percent of the total outside the EU) and the United States (72 thousand tons, or 8 percent). <strong>The third largest market for chocolate exports was Russia<\/strong>, with 65 thousand tons sold, proving that chocolate knows no crisis or sanctions.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Compared to 2022 an increase of 2 percent. 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