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23-05-2025
The global tea market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 5%-6% and the market size is projected to surpass USD 55 billion by 2024. Asia Pacific is the largest tea producing and consuming region, accounting for more than 60% of the global market. Russia, the United States, Pakistan, the United Kingdom and Egypt are the world's top five tea importers, with combined imports accounting for about 35% of the world's total imports. In terms of major categories, global black tea (HS 090240, HS 090230) imports accounted for a major share, accounting for 74.5%; green tea accounted for 25.5%.
Tea import characteristics of major importing countries
·Pakistan: Pakistan mainly imports black tea, especially CTC black tea, which has a strong taste, and is the second largest tea importer after Russia.
·Russia: Russia mainly imports Sri Lanka, India and other countries of black tea, per capita tea consumption among the world's leading.
·The United States: the United States tea imports a variety of categories, including black tea, green tea, herbal tea, etc., of which imports of black tea accounted for the highest.
·Britain: as a representative of the Western tea culture, the United Kingdom mainly imports Ceylon black tea and India Assam black tea, used to blend the characteristics of British black tea.
·Egypt: Egypt is the largest tea importer in the Middle East, mainly importing Sri Lankan black tea.
Tea consumption market diversification
Tea consumption market also presents some new trends.
First, the convenience of tea drinks and diversification of varieties, liquid tea drinks, instant tea and convenient tea by young people's favorite, while the popularity of green tea, herbal tea and fruit-flavored tea is also increasing.
Second, the refinement of tea varieties, white tea, black tea and other tea varieties with strong health and collection attributes are gradually increasing their share in the international market, and the varieties of Pu'er tea are also being further subdivided.
The third is the diversification of tea uses. With the diversification of consumer needs, the tea market is constantly innovating, with the emergence of innovative products such as tea beverages, tea food, and tea health supplements, while more forms of tea such as matcha and tea extracts are being used in a wide range of fields such as food, beverages, cosmetics, health supplements, and pharmaceuticals.
In Europe, green tea, herbal tea and fruit tea are favored by consumers for their unique taste and health and wellness effects. They prefer natural, organic and innovative tea products, and the demand for high-quality specialty teas is rising. Meanwhile, organic premium tea is attracting more and more young emerging middle-class consumers.
Innovation and quality have become the new labels of the tea consumption market. Despite the fierce competition in the global tea market, there are still differences in consumer preferences and needs in different regions, which brings new growth opportunities in the international market for tea.
According to Tendata, a global trade data platform, the international tea importers in 2024 are:
1.TAPAL TEA PRIVATE LIMITED PLOT NO 40 SECTOR 15 KORANGI INDUSTRIAL AREA KARACHI(7.72%, $213.14 Million)
2.ООО ОРИМИ(5.07%, $139.76 Million)
3.EASTREN PRODUCTS PRIVATE LIMITED(3.77%, $104.03 Million)
4.LIPTON PAKISTAN LIMITED(1.8%, $49.74 Million)
5.JAMES FINLAY MOMBASA LTD(1.46%, $40.42 Million)
6.ООО КОМПАНИЯ МАЙ(1.34%, $36.95 Million)
7.ООО КУБАНЬ ТИ(1%, $27.55 Million)
8.ООО СДС ФУДС(1%, $27.53 Million)
9.COCA COLA İÇECEK ANONİM ŞİRKETİ(0.87%, $24.1 Million)
10.PEPSICO HOLDINGS(0.87%, $23.93 Million)
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Above we have mentioned the top 10 tea importers in the world. Apart from this, many other international tea importers also play a vital role in importing tea across the world. Also, explore our tea import data at Tendata to get a complete list of all the active international tea importers across the globe.
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