Market briefing
Flax / linseed
Linum usitatissimum
- Estimated Market Range
- €2.85 – €4.29/kg
Modelled merchant asking prices, excluding VAT; source dates vary. Not a current supplier quotation.
Market watch · As of
- Trade unit value
- €0.99/kg
- Trade volume
- 1,632.84 t
Observed · 2026-06
Completed 2026-06
Current situation
Reported 2026 fibre-flax area expanded in France, Belgium and the Netherlands; next-season seed demand is unconfirmed.
What to watch
- Oilseed versus fibre sowing contracts
- Seed usage and replacement rate
B2B view
Separate oilseed and fibre requirements; confirm sowing contracts.
Trade & value
- Trade value
- €1,558,633
- Volume YoY
- +16.7%
Trade unit value YoY
- Trade unit value YoY
- -31.51%
Observed · 2026-06
Trade unit value history — €/kg
Latest available: €0.99/kg · 2026-06
Trade unit value = reported trade value divided by reported net weight. A customs indicator, not a seller quotation.
EU internal trade volume — tonnes
Leading exporters
- PL 63.48%
- BE 14.93%
- DE 6.53%
- CZ 5.48%
- NL 3.19%
Completed 2026-06
Major corridors
- PL → DE 993.82 t
- BE → FR 241.39 t
- DE → BE 88.17 t
- CZ → DE 88 t
- HU → FR 44.07 t
EU external trade
Completed 2026-06
- Exports outside EU
- 71.17 t
- Imports from outside EU
- 0 t
- Trade balance
- +71.16 t
EU-27 as a whole; reported third-country partners. Special territories excluded. Missing observations are not zero.
Supply evidence
Official seed-production evidence available.
- Years covered
- 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025, 2026
- Reported metrics
- Certified seed quantity · Certified seed area · Certified seed quantity · Seed multiplication area · Seed production area
Evidence & sources
Evidence basis
- Market situation
- alliance2026
- Indicator
- Trade unit value · 2026-06; Trade volume · 2026-06
- Geography
- EU-27 · National / regional seed evidence
- Sources / provenance
- 37a5b41b2719315cb33a3785c67b349e82f13783cf0b90982a73d496b049590a
Evidence source identifiers; observation dates are not publication dates.
Historical seed evidence; not available stock.
Customs shipment value, not a seed offer.
National definitions remain separate; no combined EU production total is inferred.
CN / TARIC customs scope
Customs precision varies by commercial seed type.
Customs-group and parent-taxon quantities are not assigned to individual commercial forms.
EU-27 seed exports to EU and third-country destinations; representative customs-derived export unit value.
- 12040010 — Linseed for sowing
Sources / provenance
- VAAD — Sēklaudzēšanas lauku platības
- VAAD — Sēklaudzēšanas lauku platības
- ÚKZÚZ — Přehled přihlášených množitelských ploch 2023, 1. a 2. část
- VAAD — Sēklaudzēšanas lauku platības
- VAAD — Sēklaudzēšanas lauku platības
- MAPA — Superficie dedicada a la producción semillas certificadas. Campaña 2022-2023.xlsx
- DGAV — Dados Nacionais – DGAV
- DGAV — Dados Nacionais – DGAV
- IASAS — IASAS annual report — 2023 activities, filename 2024
- VAAD — Sēklaudzēšanas lauku platības
- MAPA — MAPA seed certification statistics
- BAES — Sommerungen gesamt ohne Sorten 2025
- VAAD — Sēklaudzēšanas lauku platības
- IASAS — IASAS annual report — 2023 activities, filename 2024
- ESCAA — Seed production in EU - 2025
- MAPA — MAPA seed certification statistics
- BAES — Sommerungen gesamt ohne Sorten 2025
- VAT — VAT seed certification statistics
- DGAV — Dados Nacionais – DGAV
- ÚKSÚP — UZNANÉ MNOŽITEĽSKÉ PLOCHY V ROKU 2025
- DGAV — Dados Nacionais – DGAV
- ÚKSÚP — UZNANÉ MNOŽITEĽSKÉ PLOCHY V ROKU 2025
- ÚKZÚZ — Přehled přihlášených množitelských ploch 2025, 1. a 2. část
- VAAD — Sēklaudzēšanas lauku platības
- ÚKSÚP — UZNANÉ MNOŽITEĽSKÉ PLOCHY V ROKU 2025
- ÚKZÚZ — Přehled přihlášených množitelských ploch 2024, 1. a 2. část
- ÚKSÚP — UZNANÉ MNOŽITEĽSKÉ PLOCHY V ROKU 2025
- MAPA — Superficie dedicada a la producción semillas certificadas. Campaña 2020-2021.xlsx
- MAPA — MAPA seed certification statistics
- VAAD — Sēklaudzēšanas lauku platības
- Eurostat — COMEXT DS-045409
- Bundessortenamt — Zur Feldbesichtigung gemeldete Saatgutvermehrungsflächen 2026 (ha)
- Bundessortenamt — Anerkannte Saatgutmengen (dt) 2025 (Wirtschaftsjahr 2025/2026)
Missing evidence is not zero. No interpolation or customs-group allocation.
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