Insight
Wie groß ist der Marokkanische Teehandel?
Morocco imported 91,000 tonnes of Chinese tea in 2025, up 13,4%, worth USD 280 million, up 14,7%. That is the single largest destination for Chinese tea. 99,85% of it was green tea — mostly gunpowder and Chunmee grades, brewed with sugar and mint in the daily atay ritual. The average price was USD 3.043,4 per tonne.
That concentration has a consequence: Morocco took more than a fifth of China's tea export volume in 2025, so its regulatory decisions reach the whole gunpowder and Chunmee supply chain.
Wer reguliert die Einfuhr von Tee nach Marokko?
ONSSA — the Office National de Sécurité Sanitaire des Produits Alimentaires — is Morocco's food safety authority and the body that sets and enforces pesticide maximum residue limits on imported tea. Order 156-14, published in Bulletin Officiel 6322bis on 1 January 2015, established the MRL framework. Product found non-conforming at control is refused access to the national market.
ONSSA hat sich seitdem insbesondere auf die Verschärfung der Grenzwerte für Tee entschieden, nachdem es in der Inlandsregion Sorgen über Pestizidrückstände in Tee, der in Marokko verkauft wird, auslöste, und hat der Welthandelsorganisation über die überarbeiteten Höchstgrenzwerte für für für den Inlandsmarkt eingeführte und für den Wiederausfuhr vorgesehene Tee mitgeteilt.
Die praktische Wirkung für die Exporteure ist, daß ein Lot, der den nationalen Grenzen Chinas entspricht, nicht automatisch den marokkanischen Grenzen entspricht.
Warum ist ein strengeres Rückstandsregime eine Chance?
A tighter residue regime re-sorts the supplier field. When Morocco tightens residue limits, tea already produced to EU or organic standards — which is typically destined elsewhere — becomes eligible and competitive in Morocco, while suppliers who cannot document residue performance lose access to the largest single market in the trade. Compliance stops being a cost line and becomes a qualification.
Price data alone cannot show what compliance is worth: Senegal paid USD 4.024,6 per tonne in 2025 against Morocco's USD 3,043.4, but both are averages that mix grade, packing and contract terms. What is certain is that a lot without residue evidence for the destination cannot be sold into it at any price.
Welche Dokumente benötigt eine Teelauslieferung in Marokko?
The shipment file should be agreed with the Moroccan importer and customs broker for the actual product: invoice, packing list, transport document, origin evidence and any applicable plant-health, food-safety and laboratory documents. Check the current ONSSA control requirements before shipping. Food labels for sale in Morocco need the mandatory information in Arabic; another language may be added, but French is not a universal second-language requirement.
| Dokument | Ausgestellt von | Hinweis |
|---|---|---|
| Handelsrechnung und Verpackungsliste | Exporter | Der Kodex und das Suffix müssen dem Vertrag entsprechen |
| Konnossement | Transportunternehmen | Casablanca ist der Haupteintrittshafen |
| Ursprungsbescheinigung | Handelskammer / Zoll | Bestimmung der Präferenzzollbehandlung |
| Pflanzenschutzbescheinigung | Pflanzenschutzbehörde des Ausfuhrlandes | Confirm whether required for this tea shipment |
| Gesundheitsbescheinigung | zuständige Behörde des Ausfuhrlandes | Confirm applicable food-safety evidence with the importer |
| Prüfbericht über Pestizidrückstände | Akkreditiertes Labor | Test gegen die marokkanische Grenze, nicht nur die chinesische |
| Analysebescheinigung | Exporteur oder akkreditiertes Labor | Feuchtigkeit ≤ 7,0%, Asche, Bruch und Fesseln |
Who does what when tea is imported from China into Morocco?
The Moroccan importer is the party ONSSA and customs deal with: it lodges the import, presents the goods and documents for sanitary control and answers for the Arabic label. The exporter supplies the goods to the agreed specification with the invoice, packing list, transport document, origin evidence and the test reports the contract names. The residue standard is Morocco's, so testing is specified against the Moroccan limit before shipment.
Agree in the contract who arranges each document and test, and send draft documents to the importer for checking before loading. A document the importer cannot use at the border is the slowest problem to fix once the container has sailed.