Processed petroleum oils from refineries led the 20 highest value Greek export products in 2016.
The most valuable Greek exports also include medicines, olive oil and aluminum both as a material and related products including aluminum foil. Fresh fish, computers, cheese and cigars are other export products where Greece demonstrates competitive advantages.
The following list shows on which product categories Greek exporters generated relatively high international sales. Unlike most information currently available on the web, the items below are detailed at the 4-digit tariff code level. This can help entrepreneurs identify more precisely which products for which Greece enjoys strong demand and competitive advantages compared with other nations. Innovation can transform these insights into lucrative business opportunities.
Highest Value GreekExport Products
Below are the 20 highest value export products delivered to Greece’s international customers in 2016. Shown within brackets is the change in value for each exported product over the 7-year period starting in 2009.
- Processed petroleum oils: US$7.3 billion (up 60.6% since 2009)
- Medication mixes in dosage: $1.1 billion (down -15.4%)
- Olive oil: $646.5 million (up 75.9%)
- Aluminum plates, sheets, strips: $609.9 million (up 41.8%)
- Whole fish (fresh): $554.1 million (up 0.6%)
- Computers, optical readers: $519 million (up 845%)
- Other prepared/preserved vegetables (non-frozen): $457 million (up 43.9%)
- Cheese, curd: $445.5 million (up 49.9%)
- Copper tubes, pipes: $372.6 million (up 74.7%)
- Cotton (uncarded, uncombed): $340.6 million (down -16%)
- Cigars/cigarellos, cigarettes: $335.3 million (up 68.6%)
- Miscellaneous preserved fruits: $325.6 million (down -9%)
- Aluminum bars/rods: $284.5 million (up 119.3%)
- Aluminum foil (thin): $272.2 million (up 90%)
- Fresh or dried citrus fruit: $266 million (up 13.2%)
- Hydraulic cements: $248.9 million (up 0.3%)
- Aluminum (unwrought): $244.1 million (up 69.2%)
- Unmanufactured tobacco, tobacco waste: $240.2 million (down -38.4%)
- Insulated wire/cable: $239.6 million (down -0.1%)
- Phone system devices including smartphones: $221.9 million (up 29%)
Among these product categories, computers including optical readers posted the greatest increase in Greek export sales with a 845% gain in value from $54.9 million in 2009 to $519 million during 2016.
In second place were exported aluminum bars and rods which grew 119.3% over the same 7-year period followed by thin aluminum foil up 90%.
Greek exports of olive oil also showed a respectable gain in 2016 up 75.9% from 2009, trailed by export sales of copper tubes and pipes up 74.7%.
Leading the decliners were exports of tobacco (down -38.4%), raw cotton (down -16%) and medication mixes in dosage (down -15.4%).