In 2025/26, the EU reduced rapeseed imports by 29% and increased barley exports by 72%.

According to the European Commission, in the 2025/26 marketing year, the EU increased its exports of common wheat by 8% compared to the previous season, from 21.62 to 23.42 million tonnes, most of which were delivered to Nigeria and Morocco. The main exporters were Romania (7.29 million tonnes), France (5.56 million tonnes), Poland (3.28 million tonnes), Germany (2.34 million tonnes) and Lithuania (2.28 million tonnes).

Barley exports increased by 72% compared to the previous season to 8.98 million tons, of which 1.9 million tons were delivered to Saudi Arabia and 1.7 million tons to China.

Corn imports in the 2025/26 MY decreased by 7% to 18.47 million tons, in particular, supplies from Ukraine - from 11 to 8.5 million tons (46% of imports), while supplies from the USA increased from 4 to 5.9 million tons (31.9%), and from Brazil - from 1.6 to 3 million tons (16.3%).

Rapeseed imports decreased by 29% to 5.4 million tons, in particular from Australia - from 3.6 to 2.14 million tons (39.7% of supplies), from Ukraine - from 2.41 to 1.597 million tons (29.6%), from Canada - from 1.13 to 0.87 million tons (16.2%), while supplies from Moldova increased from 105 to 274.8 thousand tons.

Soybean imports decreased by 3% to 14.1 million tons, in particular from Brazil - from 5.9 to 4.4 million tons (31.3% of supplies), from Ukraine - from 1.58 to 1.3 million tons (9.5%), while supplies from the USA increased from 6.3 to 7.28 million tons (51.7%).

Despite the decrease in the sunflower harvest, in the 2025/26 MY the EU increased its exports by 72% to 988.5 thousand tons, of which 720 thousand tons were shipped from Romania and 216 thousand tons from Bulgaria, in particular 794 thousand tons were delivered to Turkey. At the same time, sunflower imports increased by 99% to 1.21 million tons, in particular 670 thousand tons were delivered from Argentina, 335 thousand tons from Moldova, of which 565 thousand tons were purchased by Bulgaria and 248 thousand tons by Romania.

Imports of soybean meal decreased by 1% to 19.2 million tons, and palm oil by 4% to 2.9 million tons.

At the same time, the European Commission notes that the data provided is incomplete, as it does not take into account information for France starting from 2024, for Bulgaria and Ireland starting from July 2023, and for Greece starting from January 2026.