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According to Ukraine's State Customs Service, the country's sunflower oil exports totalled around 2.407 million tonnes between January and June 2025, generating revenues of $2.77 billion, according to the press office of Ukraine's parliament, the Verkhovna Rada.
Spain and Italy were among the largest buyers of Ukrainian sunflower oil during this period, accounting for 12.88% and 12.18% of total exports respectively, followed by India with 11.77%. These countries spent $356.945 million, $337.494 million and $326.071 million respectively on purchases of Ukrainian sunflower oil.
By contrast, exports of rapeseed oil fell 3.6-fold over the same period compared with January-June 2024, dropping to just 19,992 tonnes, which caused revenues to decline 2.9-fold to $58.015 million.
The Netherlands was the largest buyer of Ukrainian rapeseed oil, accounting for 39.29% of total exports with revenues of $7.750 million, followed by Germany with 21.44% ($4.23 million) and Slovakia with 13.13% ($2.591 million).
Meanwhile, Ukraine increased its soybean oil exports by 52% during the first half of this year compared with 287,052 tonnes a year earlier, while revenues more than doubled to reach $295.034 million.
Among the largest buyers of Ukrainian soybean oil were Poland, accounting for 63.97% of total exports ($188.736 million), followed by India with 9.02% ($26.616 million) and Germany with 4.04% ($11.925 million).
Source: APK-Inform