Exporting olive oil and olives to the European Union

Exporting olive oil and olives from Argentina to the European Union covers 11 lines of the Combined Nomenclature 2026. Under the EU-Mercosur Agreement, 5 enter duty-free today and 6 are being phased out (the last ones reach zero on 1 January 2036). Data as of 30 October 2026, from the EU-Mercosur Interim Trade Agreement and the Combined Nomenclature 2026.

Lines covered

The guide takes every line of the Combined Nomenclature in force that starts with these codes, 11 lines in all. Each one has its own sheet.

• 1509 · Olive oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified · 4 lines
• 1510 · Other oils and their fractions, obtained solely from olives, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified, including blends of these oils… · 2 lines
• 0709 92 · Other vegetables › Olives · 2 lines
• 0711 20 · Vegetables provisionally preserved › Olives · 2 lines
• 2005 70 · Other vegetables prepared or preserved otherwise than by vinegar or acetic acid › Olives · 1 line

Source Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1926, Annex I (Combined Nomenclature 2026)

The duty under the agreement

What each line pays today to enter the European Union from Argentina under the agreement, counted line by line with the same calculation as its sheet.

• 5lines enter duty-free thanks to the agreement
• 6lines pay less and go down year by year

When they reach zero

The lines that do not enter duty-free in every case (they pay something, the figure depends on composition or the entry price, or the reduction applies only within a quota), by the year the schedule takes the duty under the agreement to zero.

• 1 January 2030 · 3 lines
• 1 January 2033 · 1 line
• 1 January 2036 · 2 lines

Line by line

Grouped by heading. The code opens the sheet, with the year-by-year schedule and the source of every figure.

Sources EU-Mercosur Agreement, Appendix 2-A-1 (EU schedule) · Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1926, Annex I (Combined Nomenclature 2026)

Tariff-rate quotas

No line of this sector has a quota of the agreement for Argentina. Each reduction applies to any quantity.

Requirements

The requirements loaded for the lines of the sector, with how many each one covers. Each sheet has the detail for its line.

• The EU plant health regulation requires a phytosanitary certificate for 2 lines. Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/2072 · plant health

What Access2Markets lists in the EU

The requirements the European Commission's Access2Markets database assigns to the 11 lines checked.

Source Access2Markets

What the European Union imports

In 2025 the European Union imported €1,064 million from outside the Union in 11 lines of this sector. From Argentina, €24.3 million (2.3% of the total). That is 0.3% of everything the European Union bought from Argentina in 2025.

The lines where Argentina sells the most

The totals leave out the trade Eurostat publishes as confidential.

Source Eurostat · Comext (DS-045409), 2025