Eurostat, Comext dataset DS-045409, 'EU trade since 1988 by HS2-4-6 and CN8', EU27 imports from the Syrian Arab Republic of HS 1509 and its CN8 subheadings, annual, 2023 to 2025; dataset updated 14 August 2026
Source ID
SRC-385
Citation
Eurostat, Comext dataset DS-045409, 'EU trade since 1988 by HS2-4-6 and CN8', EU27 imports from the Syrian Arab Republic of HS 1509 and its CN8 subheadings, annual, 2023 to 2025; dataset updated 14 August 2026
Official statistical dataset of an intergovernmental statistical authority
Hierarchy tier
1
Published
2026-08-14
Accessed
2026-08-24
Snapshot
Queried through Eurostat's Comext SDMX API on 24 August 2026, reporter EU27_2020, partner SY, flow 1 for imports, indicator VALUE_IN_EUROS and QUANTITY_IN_100KG; JSON responses archived
Claims
CH9 olive trade; the European value series at source line 2245; the lampante share
Status
READ
Version history
The register keeps changing after the book is fixed in print. Each entry below was added to this row in the order shown.
RETRIEVED TO CLOSE A BAR AND IT VINDICATED THE MANUSCRIPT. The completeness critic found Eurostat Comext and TARIC had never been attempted, and the Stage 2 verifier found the European value series had no retrieved primary and that its first figure was reachable only by converting a UN Comtrade mirror dollar figure at about 1.081. BOTH WERE TRUE OF WHAT HAD BEEN RETRIEVED AND BOTH ARE NOW SUPERSEDED. THE SERIES IS EXACT AT THE PRIMARY. EU27 imports of HS 1509 from Syria: 2023 EUR 56,388,561; 2024 EUR 36,318,453; 2025 EUR 4,762,151. The manuscript's 56.4, 36.3 and 4.8 million are exact. Quantities, in 100 kg: 120,611.52, 74,779.55 and 11,523.1, so 12,061, 7,478 and 1,152 tonnes, giving implied unit values of EUR 4.67, 4.86 and 4.13 a kilogram, WHICH ARE THIS PROJECT'S OWN ARITHMETIC AND NOT EUROSTAT FIGURES. THE LAMPANTE SHARE HOLDS AS STATED. CN 1509 40, which Eurostat labels 'Virgin olive oil EU cat. 3', was EUR 47,778,407 in 2023, or 84.7 per cent of the total, against the manuscript's 'roughly four fifths'. That is a slight understatement and is defensible. THE SUBHEADINGS RECONCILE EXACTLY to the HS 1509 total in all three years, which is worth recording because nothing else in this chapter's trade evidence does. AND THE COMPOSITION INVERTS, WHICH NO ARTEFACT IN THIS PROJECT HAS NOTICED. Lampante ran 84.7 per cent of the value in 2023, 68.6 in 2024 and 13.8 in 2025, while extra virgin, CN 1509 20, ran 10.4 per cent, then 15.3, then 54.8. So as the trade collapsed by a factor of twelve, what survived was the TOP of the grade ladder and not the bottom. The manuscript's 'in bulk, unbranded, at the bottom of the grade ladder' is exact for 2023 and is not true of the residue. Full series, EUR: 2023 extra virgin 5,883,385, virgin 2,475,080, lampante 47,778,407, other 251,689; 2024 5,558,588, 4,824,188, 24,914,318, 1,021,359; 2025 2,608,091, 1,363,797, 656,010, 134,253. NOT READ: the member-state breakdown, which would test the manuscript's attribution to Spain and Italy; the quantity split by subheading; and any year before 2023.