Tea Exports by Country
Global sales from tea exports by country totaled an estimated US$7 billion in 2018.
Overall, the value of tea exports fell by an average -10.9% for all exporting countries since 2014 when tea shipments were valued at $7.8 billion. Year over year, global tea exports depreciated -13.6% from 2017 to 2018.
Among continents, Asian countries generated the highest dollar worth of exported tea during 2018 with shipments valued at $4.1 billion or close to three-fifths (58.8%) of the global total. In second place were African exporters at 21.9% while 15.1% of worldwide tea shipments originated from Europe.
Much smaller percentages of exported tea came from North America (2.4%), Latin America (1.5%) excluding Mexico and the Caribbean, then Oceania (0.2%) led by Australia and New Zealand.
For research purposes, the 4-digit Harmonized Tariff System code prefix for tea is 0902.
Tea Exports by Country
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- China: US$1.8 billion (25.7% of total tea exports)
- Kenya: $1.1 billion (16.2%)
- India: $763.2 million (11%)
- Sri Lanka: $721.6 million (10.4%)
- Germany: $252 million (3.6%)
- Poland: $202.3 million (2.9%)
- Japan: $142.2 million (2%)
- United Kingdom: $140.7 million (2%)
- United States: $124 million (1.8%)
- Vietnam: $116.8 million (1.7%)
- Taiwan: $111.9 million (1.6%)
- Indonesia: $108.4 million (1.6%)
- Russia: $97.9 million (1.4%)
- Argentina: $94 million (1.4%)
- Netherlands: $93.5 million (1.3%)
Among the above countries, the fastest-growing tea exporters since 2014 were: Taiwan (up 159.7%), Japan (up 89.1%), China (up 40.3%) then India (up 16.3%).
Those countries that posted declines in their exported tea sales were led by: Sri Lanka (down -55.2%), Vietnam (down -48.7%), Indonesia (down -19.4%), Argentina (down -18.3%) and Poland (down -14.2%).
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