Cordoba leads the growth of exports in Andalusia until May and exceeds one billion euros in foreign sales

As for imports during the same period, products valued at 554.2 million euros were purchased from the province, which also represented an increase of 27.4% and 0.4% of everything imported into Spain. The difference between the imported and the exported, therefore, left the balance of trade in Cordoba with a positive balance of 476.3 million euros, 55% higher than in the same period of 2020.

Within Andalusia, Córdoba is not the province that exports the most, but it is the one that grows the most. The largest exporters until May were Huelva, with 3,106 million euros, Seville, with almost 2,594 million euros, Cadiz, with 2,586.7 million and Almería, with almost 2.4 billion euros. Below the export figures for Cordoba were Málaga, with 999 million, Granada, 639 and Jaén with 546. It was, precisely, Jaén the province that grew the most after Cordoba, but with a rise far away from the Cordobesa, 31.3%. Except Cadiz and Malaga, all the provinces managed to accumulate a positive commercial balance during the first five months of the year.

Products

As for what Cordoba exports most abroad, olive oil once again stands out. Between January and May 2021 Cordoba sold olive oil to other countries worth more than 284 million euros, 53% more than in the same period last year. Olive oil is followed in sales by products derived from copper smelting, with almost 240 million euros in exports, almost 60% more than in the first five months of the year. Cordoba's biggest increase in the products sold abroad was "other chemicals", whose sales increased by about 90% until May with 50 million euros (far away from oil and copper).

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Among these best-selling products also stand out again vegetable preserves, electrical equipment, air conditioning or jewelry, the latter sold in the first five months of this year products worth 22.3 million euros, growing compared to the same period of 2020 by almost 51%.

As for the companies that export these products, in Córdoba there were up to May a total of 117 companies exporting olive oil among the nearly 500 exporting companies registered during the period. And although copper was second best sold abroad, the fact is that the Cordoba companies that export it are much less numerous than olive groves, nine in the same period.

The other largest companies that exported outside were jewelry companies, with 73 businesses selling their products to other countries.

And among the imported products, what Cordoba buys most from foreign companies are semi-manufactured copper products and their alloys, raw materials and semi-manufactures of plastic and olive oil.

Countries to which Cordoba sells the most

Among the main countries to which Cordoba sells its products, it again leads the list Italy, with almost 200 million euros in purchases of Cordobese products. This list also includes France, with 133.2 million euros, Portugal with almost 117 million euros and Morocco with more than 111 million euros.

In addition, sales increased exponentially to countries such as Bulgaria (almost 169 per cent), South Africa (164.5 per cent) and the Netherlands (more than 154 per cent). Even so, these countries have little weight within the territories to which Córdoba sells products.