In EU27 imports of Syrian olive oil under HS 1509, 2023 is the highest year by customs value from 2010 to 2025, and in 2021 the grade composition had already turned over once: extra virgin about three quarters of the value and lampante, then CN 1509 10 10, about a fifth, on my arithmetic
Claim ID
OLIVE-002
Exact or summary claim
In EU27 imports of Syrian olive oil under HS 1509, 2023 is the highest year by customs value from 2010 to 2025, and in 2021 the grade composition had already turned over once: extra virgin about three quarters of the value and lampante, then CN 1509 10 10, about a fifth, on my arithmetic
Destination
Chapter 9
Status
SUPPORTED
Source
Eurostat, Comext dataset DS-045409, EU27 imports from Syria of HS 1509 and its CN8 subheadings, annual 2010 to 2025, dataset updated 16 October 2026 (SRC-791); 2023 to 2025 identical to SRC-385
Source type
Official statistical dataset of an intergovernmental statistical authority
Published
2026-10-16
Accessed
2026-10-16
Measure and scope
Customs value in euros of EU27_2020 imports from the Syrian Arab Republic, flow 1. HS 1509 by year: 2010 642,318; 2011 21,420; 2012 208,286; 2013 4,680,967; 2014 351,004; 2015 4,440,658; 2016 17,842,925; 2017 43,170,165; 2018 54,430,823; 2019 14,523,962; 2020 4,657,130; 2021 7,653,512; 2022 6,438,731; 2023 56,388,561; 2024 36,318,453; 2025 4,762,151. 2021 by CN8 (pre-2022 nomenclature): 15091010 virgin lampante 1,550,168; 15091020 extra virgin 5,741,274; 15091080 other virgin 210,218; 15099000 other 151,852; the four sum to the HS 1509 total. AUTHOR ARITHMETIC: extra virgin 75.0 per cent and lampante 20.3 per cent of the 2021 value
Known conflict
THE CN CODES CHANGED IN 2022: lampante is 1509 10 10 to 2021 and 1509 40 from 2022, and the labels differ ('Virgin lampante olive oil' against 'Virgin olive oil EU cat. 3'); the two are compared by label, not through the CN correspondence table, which was not opened. THE GRADE HAS MOVED BEFORE: lampante was 75.7 per cent of value in 2018, 70.9 in 2020, 20.3 in 2021 and 62.0 in 2022 (author arithmetic). Read after the closing date of 28 September 2026; printed at Chapter 9 l.111 dated as read on 16 October 2026, after this book's closing date. THIS IS EU-DECLARED IMPORT DATA and not a Syrian export return (as OLIVE-001) || 18 October 2026 (closing pass 2, D-315; unit CL2-D): 'printed at Chapter 9 l.111 dated as read on 16 October 2026, after this book\'s closing date' now reads, at v42, dated as read on 16 October 2026, the label lifted (D-315 item 1).
Specialist
Olive trade and quality
Downstream
Chapter 9
Action
Print as one dated sentence, scoped to 2010 to 2025, with the shares labelled as my arithmetic. Do not print a unit value. Do not say which of l.111's two explanations held; the longer series bears on that question and it is reserved for later work (D-306 item 3)