Leading countries in positive and negative balance of foreign trade in fruit and berry products

In this scientific article, the authors set the goal of identifying the countries that were leaders in terms of positive and negative balances of their foreign trade in fruit and berry products. To achieve this, we determined the difference between the value of exports and imports of goods of this food subgroup for all economies of the world presented in the FAO database for 2014 and 2023. After these author's calculations, twenty countries were selected that were among the top twenty in 2023 for both positive and negative balances. To identify changes that occurred over a ten-year period for each of the selected economies, a comparison of indicators was made relative to 2014. In both compared years, the authors calculated the share of these countries, respectively, in the global positive and negative balance of international turnover of fruit and berry products. Based on the results obtained, two ratings were compiled in tabular form. It was revealed that in 2023, the top ten included Spain, Chile, Thailand, Mexico, Peru, Turkey, South Africa, Ecuador, Brazil, and Costa Rica. Together, they provided 70.10% of the corresponding global positive balance. In the second, the top ten included the following: the United States, China, Germany, Great Britain, Russia, France, Canada, Japan, Switzerland, and Hong Kong. Together, they provided 76.08% of the global negative balance of international turnover of fruit and berry products.