Spanish exports of fresh fruit and vegetables to Switzerland have remained stable at around 185,000 tonnes in recent years. In 2025, exports totalled 185,433 tonnes, slightly below the 196,865 tonnes exported in 2024, but very similar to 2023 (181,371 tonnes) and 2021 (189,660 tonnes), according to data from the Spanish Department of Customs and Excise Duties processed by FEPEX.
In value terms, Spanish fruit and vegetable sales to Switzerland have increased. They reached in 2025, reached 420 million euros, up 4% compared with 2024 and 30% higher than five years earlier, in 2021, when they amounted to 314 million euros.
For the Spanish fruit and vegetable sector, Switzerland is the second-largest market within non-EU Europe, after the United Kingdom. In 2025, Spanish exports to non-EU European countries reached 1.6 million tonnes worth 2.939 billion euros, accounting for 14% of Spain’s total fruit and vegetable exports, with the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Norway as the main destinations.
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The agreements signed yesterday by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Swiss President Guy Parmelin are intended to deepen and broaden the bilateral relationship through a modernised framework covering areas ranging from trade and transport to health and energy.
The package includes updates to four existing agreements that already grant Switzerland access to the EU single market, covering air transport, land transport, the free movement of persons and mutual recognition of conformity assessments.
In addition, it introduces new agreements, including one on food safety, which will establish a common food safety area encompassing all dimensions of the food supply chain, according to the European Commission’s official statement.
