Exports rose for all citrus except for lemon

Despite a 30% drop compared to May 2015, lemons exports still represent 38% of the total amount of exported citrus, followed by oranges (32%), pomelos (29%), and far behind mandarins (1%). 

Note however that orange exports have quadrupled in comparison with May 2015, while those of pomelos almost tripled and exports of mandarins increased from 67 tons to over 500 tons. 

Regarding importing countries, Iraq has become the first country importer of Turkish oranges (56 % of total imports), followed by India (8%), Turkmenistan, the Netherlands and Romania. Iraq is also the first mandarins importing country (53% of total imports in quantity), followed by Kazakhstan (21 %), Turkmenistan (18%) and far behind by Ukraine (4%) and the Maldives (1%). Lemon is also first imported by Iraq (26%), followed by Romania (15%), Serbia (13%), Saudi Arabia (11%) and in fifth position, Russia (7%). Grapefruit is not an imported product prized by Iraq and the first position is hold by Romania (17%), closely followed by Poland (16%) and Russia (14%). Ukraine arrives in 4th place with 9% of total imports of grapefruit and Italy in 5th place with 5 % of total imports. 

Source : www.akib.org.tr