Agriculture & Extractions
- Spain produces large crops of wheat, barley, vegetables, tomatoes, olives, sugar beets, citrus fruit, grapes, and cork. Spain is the world's largest producer of olive oil and Europe's largest producer of lemons, oranges, and strawberries.
- The best-known wine regions are those of Rioja, in the upper Ebro valley, and of Málaga and Jerez de la Frontera, in Andalusia.
Extraction Industry
The following export product groups represent the highest dollar value in Spanish global shipments during 2014. Also shown is the percentage share each export category represents in terms of overall exports from Spain.
- Vehicles: US$51.6 billion (16.2% of total exports)
- Machines, engines, pumps: $24.4 billion (7.6%)
- Oil: $23 billion (7.2%)
- Electronic equipment: $17.2 billion (5.4%)
- Pharmaceuticals: $12.7 billion (4%)
- Plastics: $12.4 billion (3.9%)
- Fruits, nuts: $9.3 billion (2.9%)
- Iron and steel: $9 billion (2.8%)
- Iron or steel products: $8.2 billion (2.6%)
- Clothing (not knit or crochet): $7.4 billion (2.3%)
- Spanish machinery posted the third-fastest gain in value at 33.6%.
- The slowest-growing category among the top 10 Spanish exports was iron and steel products which was down by 2%.
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