Australia's top export destinations
Destinations recording value growth with exports of $5 million or more were:
- Singapore, up 16% to $114 million (Singapore is a significant trading hub in the Asian region)
- New Zealand, up 5% to $98 million
- Germany, up 9% to $55 million
- South Korea, up 111% to $45 million (now almost on par with Japan)
- Malaysia, up 23% $38 million
- Thailand, up 48% to $26 million
- Taiwan, up 29% $26 million
- Belgium, up 16% to $19 million
- France, up 36% $17 million
- Finland, up 20% to $14 million
- Ireland, up 30% $13 million
- Russia, up 48% to $10 million
- Norway, up 49% to $9 million
- Switzerland, up 13% to $6 million
- Vietnam, up 7% to $5 million.
The combined value of these 11 destinations is $464 million, which is roughly the equivalent of exports to the UK.
Top 5 markets by value:
- Mainland China, down 45% to $606 million
- United Kingdom (UK), up 23% to $472 million
- United States (US), down 7% to $400 million
- Hong Kong, up 111% to $187 million
- Canada, down 1% to $184 million.
The top five destinations by volume were:
- UK, up 16% to 269 million litres
- US, down 8% to 127 million litres
- Mainland China, down 57% to 52 million litres
- Canada, down 5% 51 million litres
- Germany, up 14% to 36 million litres.
Source: Wine Australia