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No joke: > In 2022, the EU exported just over €100 million worth of orchid, hyacinth, narcissi, and tulip bulbs to countries across the world, according to sta
by diggan 3y ago
No joke:
> In 2022, the EU exported just over €100 million worth of orchid, hyacinth, narcissi, and tulip bulbs to countries across the world, according to statistics published by Eurostat, the EU statistics agency, on 6 April.
> Of this total, 81% of exports came from the Netherlands, which is almost synonymous with tulips and exports many of the flowers and their bulbs.
> The Dutch exported €81.9 million-worth of tulips to countries outside the EU. The next biggest exporter is Lithuania at just €6.7 million.
https://www.brusselstimes.com/450559/the-netherlands-exported-e82-million-in-tulips-and-bulbs-last-year https://www.brusselstimes.com/450559/the-netherlands-exporte...
- xxs 3y agomost of the produce is consumed within the EU/EEA, though
- diggan 3y agoYes, this is talked about in the linked article too: > Plants and bulbs are mostly exported to other European countries. Switzerland is the EU’s main partner for these products, accounting for 31% of EU exports (or €31.3 million). The UK also imported €21.4 million, Norway €11.5 million, Russia €9.4 million, and Ukraine €5.5 million.
- xxs 3y agoNo really. They are ALL outside the EU. Norway is in the EEA, though. Just because they are European countries it doesn't make them EU, which the article doesn't mention. The point is that the business within the EU is much larger than the export outside.