3. Wine
Fortified wines, notably Port and Madeira, and rosé wines, Mateus and Lancers, account for over
70% of Portugal's wine exports and yet are only 15% of total wine production.
There are over 400,000 hectares of land designated to wine production in Portugal.
4. Clothing and Footwear
Clothing and Footwear exports are 13.7 percent of all Portugal's exports.
Companies responsible for clothing exports: Gomes & Mendes, Flor textil,
Ferreira & Principe, Dielmar, Crispim Abreu & Ca Lda, Calvelex, and Alvaro
Cunha.
Portuguese footwear reaches over 70% of the world's countries. (2011)
Portuguese industry exports footwear to all 5 continents within 132 countries.
(2011)
The Portuguese footwear industry exports 95% of what it makes.(2011)
Within the first 5 months of the year, Portuguese footwear exports have grown by
19.8%, which would be over twice as much as it imports.(2011)
France is by far the imports the greatest amount of footwear exported by portugal
at a wonderful worth of 165 million euros. (2011)
6. Cork and Paper Products
Portuguese cork accounts for about 50% of the world’s total cork production.
and about 720,000 hectares of land in Portugal is dedicated to the cultivation of cork oak trees from
where cork is obtained.
It has been estimated that a whopping 16% of the total foreign income in Portugal is accumulated from
the export of cork
Cork is used in building and architectural purposes and in floors, in the automobile, military and space
industries, in footwear and leather goods, as chemical components in pharmaceutical industries and
most importantly as cork stoppers used as closures for wine bottles this great diversity allows sales to
be as good as they are.
