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Who buys New Zealand’s cheese? Export destinations 2024

In 2024, New Zealand exported $1.7 billion of cheese (374 thousand tonnes), 3.9% of the world total. Its main destinations were China (27%), Japan (15%) and Australia (12%). New Zealand was the world’s 7th-largest exporter of cheese.

Summary

Value
$1.7billion
Tonnes
374thousand tonnes
Share of world total
3.9%
World rank
7th
Routes to the main destinations. Width: value; color: estimated transport mode.SeaAirLand

Destinations

The 20 main destinations in the latest year.

PartnerValue (USD millions)TonnesUSD per tonneShareMode
China467Tonnes: 101,307USD per tonne: $4,60527.1%Sea
Japan261Tonnes: 57,116USD per tonne: $4,57415.2%Sea
Australia203Tonnes: 44,971USD per tonne: $4,51311.8%Sea
South Korea103Tonnes: 22,158USD per tonne: $4,6326%Sea
Philippines72.9Tonnes: 16,217USD per tonne: $4,4944.2%Sea
Saudi Arabia71.8Tonnes: 15,720USD per tonne: $4,5704.2%Sea
Indonesia57.9Tonnes: 13,064USD per tonne: $4,4353.4%Sea
Malaysia50.8Tonnes: 11,709USD per tonne: $4,3413%Sea
Taiwan48.8Tonnes: 10,829USD per tonne: $4,5072.8%Sea
United Kingdom39Tonnes: 11,356USD per tonne: $3,4362.3%Sea
Thailand38.3Tonnes: 8,147USD per tonne: $4,7002.2%Sea
Trinidad and Tobago34.3Tonnes: 6,298USD per tonne: $5,4542%Sea
Mexico25.2Tonnes: 6,112USD per tonne: $4,1251.5%Sea
Vietnam24.4Tonnes: 5,051USD per tonne: $4,8241.4%Sea
Hong Kong re-exports23.3Tonnes: 4,319USD per tonne: $5,3961.4%Sea
Jamaica16.3Tonnes: 3,192USD per tonne: $5,0930.94%Sea
Singapore re-exports15.6Tonnes: 2,903USD per tonne: $5,3640.9%Sea
Guyana13.9Tonnes: 2,497USD per tonne: $5,5640.81%Sea
Canada12.5Tonnes: 2,733USD per tonne: $4,5690.72%Sea
United Arab Emirates11.4Tonnes: 2,833USD per tonne: $4,0190.66%Sea

Trend

Who it sells to

China has been its main destination since 2019

Value in USD millions. The five largest destinations in 2024.

  • China 467
  • Japan 261
  • Australia 203
  • South Korea 103
  • Philippines 72.9

Source: CEPII BACI

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Partner19952024
China0.06467
Japan104261
Australia40.3203
South Korea4103
Philippines15.572.9

Sources and methodology

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Methodology

Goods trade from CEPII BACI (BACI_HS92_V202601), which reconciles what exporters and importers report: countries that stopped reporting (Russia since 2022) appear with their partners’ data. FOB values in current US dollars; tonnes when BACI reports them. The price per tonne is the value of the rows with a weight divided by that weight. The transport mode is our own estimate based on value per kilo and geography. Data up to 2024.

Hong Kong, Singapore, the Netherlands and Belgium re-export goods from other countries: their figures include transit.

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