Harvesting windrowed canola in WA’s Toodyay district. Photo: McIntosh & Son

AUSTRALIA exported 5.4 million tonnes (Mt) of canola in the year to September 30, according to the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Belgium on 1.41Mt was the major market for the year, followed by Germany on 1.08Mt, and France on 495,842t.

Markets outside Europe, namely the United Arab Emirates on 620,597t and Pakistan on 468,226t, were the fourth and fifth-biggest markets respectively.

Total 2024-25 exports were well down on the 6.1Mt shipped in 2023-24, when Japan on 1.33Mt was the single biggest market.

A cargo of canola is currently loading at the Western Australian port of Esperance, and is scheduled to leave the berth tomorrow bound for the northern Chinese port of Qingdao.

This shipment represents the first bulk sale of Australian canola to China since 2020, and subsequent cargoes from the harvest now taking place are expected, particularly in the light of China’s tariff on Canadian canola.

 

CANOLA
Oct-Dec
Jan-Mar
Apr-Jun
Jly
Aug
Sep
Tonnes

Argentina
5
9
50
0
0
0
64

Bangladesh
47842
42958
59180
1154
40523
225
191883

Belgium
441006
598182
371053
0
0
0
1410241

Brazil
256
100
52
129
0
0
537

Canada
0
49
26
0
0
0
75

France
180152
125203
190487
0
0
0
495842

Germany
435340
518143
129190
0
0
0
1082673

Greece
0
124743
60150
0
0
32910
217803

Indonesia
0
0
0
84
0
80
164

Japan
10172
87901
68552
76357
58413
1422
302817

Kuwait
0
0
20
0
0
0
20

Malaysia
3882
11896
5552
6584
6740
4088
38741

Nepal
29821
42710
15882
5355
7814
10995
112577

Netherlands
125890
182980
65190
0
0
0
374060

New Zealand
824
410
797
807
806
0
3644

Pakistan
149310
192240
126676
0
0
0
468226

Paraguay
118
0
0
0
0
0
118

Portugal
0
33000
0
0
0
0
33000

South Africa
994
202
270
0
0
0
1466

South Korea
1114
0
0
0
0
0
1114

Spain
0
41124
0
0
0
0
41124

Sri Lanka
0
0
0
0
479
2348
2827

UAE
54000
210777
120765
64331
63400
107325
620597

US
9
10
0
0
0
0
19

Uruguay
101
101
0
0
0
0
202

TOTAL
1480836
2212737
1213891
154801
178175
159392
5399832

Table 1: Australian canola exports for the year to September 2025. Source: ABS

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