International trade
The first estimates of euro area balance showed a €36.8 bn surplus in trade in goods with the rest of the world in March 2025, compared with +€22.8 bn in March 2024.
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The first estimates of euro area balance showed a €24.0 bn surplus in trade in goods with the rest of the world in February 2025, compared with + €21.7 bn in February 2024.
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The first estimates of euro area balance showed a €1.0 bn surplus in trade in goods with the rest of the world in January 2025, compared with +€10.6 bn in January 2024.
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The first estimates of euro area balance showed a €15.5 bn surplus in trade in goods with the rest of the world in December 2024, compared with + €16.4 bn in December 2023.
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The first estimates of euro area balance showed a €16.4 bn surplus in trade in goods with the rest of the world in November 2024, compared with + €18.2 bn in November 2023.
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The first estimates of euro area balance showed a €6.8 bn surplus in trade in goods with the rest of the world in October 2024, compared with + €9.4 bn in October 2023.
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The first estimates of euro area balance showed a €12.5 bn surplus in trade in goods with the rest of the world in September 2024, compared with + €9.8 bn in September 2023.
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The first estimates of euro area balance showed a €4.6 bn surplus in trade in goods with the rest of the world in August 2024, compared with €4.8 bn in August 2023.
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The first estimates of euro area balance showed a €21.2 bn surplus in trade in goods with the rest of the world in July 2024, compared with €6.7 bn in July 2023.
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The first estimates of euro area balance showed a €22.3 bn surplus in trade in goods with the rest of the world in June 2024, compared with €18.0 bn in June 2023.
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The first estimates of euro area balance showed a €13.9 bn surplus in trade in goods with the rest of the world in May 2024, compared with a deficit of €0.4 bn in May 2023.
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In 2023, EU countries exported €59.4 billion worth of research and development services to countries outside of the EU and imported €102.6 billion, resulting in a €43.2 billion trade deficit. Both exports and imports increased compared with 2022, by 9.0% and 16.6%, respectively.
The United State...
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In 2024, the EU exported €234.1 billion worth of agricultural products and imported €194.9 billion, generating a €39.2 billion surplus. Compared with 2023, both exports and imports registered year-on-year increases of 2.8% and 6.7%, respectively.
Between 2014 and 2024, EU trade in agricultural p...
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In 2024, the EU exported €42.8 billion in goods to Ukraine and imported €24.5 billion, resulting in a €18.3 billion trade surplus.
When compared with 2023, this was an increase in exports and imports of 9.4% and 7.0%, respectively.
Source dataset: ds-045409
The main export products were min...
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In 2023, EU countries exported €245 billion worth of transport services to countries outside of the EU, marking a decline of 21.5% compared with 2022. This fall was mainly due to a decrease in sea transport.
However, sea transport remained the largest services category and accounted for half of ...
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In 2024, the EU exported €29.8 billion worth of alcoholic beverages, indicating a 10.9% increase since 2019 (€26.9 billion).
Exports were dominated by wine of fresh grapes, including fortified wines, representing 56.2% (€16.8 billion) of all alcoholic beverages. Spirits and liqueurs up the seco...
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In 2024, EU exports of medicinal and pharmaceutical products increased by 13.5% compared with 2023, reaching €313.4 billion. At the same time, imports only recorded a modest increase of 0.5%, amounting to €119.7 billion.
Consequently, in 2024, the EU's trade surplus in medicinal and pharmaceutic...
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In 2024, the value of EU exports of spacecraft products, including satellites, suborbital and spacecraft launch vehicles, reached €1.217 billion, marking an increase from €1.20 billion in 2019.
At the same time, the import value of these products grew from the €117 million to €166 million.
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In 2024, a total of 12 900 tonnes of rare earth elements (REE+) were imported to the EU, marking a decrease of 29.3% compared with 2023.
At the same time, 5 500 tonnes of rare earth elements were exported from the EU, a drop of only 0.8%.
Rare earth elements are a group of 17 specialty metals ...
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Disclaimer: a typo in the headline was corrected after publication.
In 2023, imported services from outside the EU totalled €3 344 billion. This information comes from official statistics on the international trade in services (ITS) by modes of supply (MOS) published for the first time for mode...
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In 2024, the EU exported 5.4 million cars and imported 4.0 million cars. Compared with 2019, the number of exported cars dropped by 13.2% while the number of imported cars decreased by 3.0%.
Measured in value, in 2024, the EU exported €165.2 billion worth of cars and imported €75.9 billion, resu...
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In 2024, the EU trade in goods balance registered a surplus of €147 billion, representing a €113 billion increase compared with 2023 (€34 billion).
Between 2014 and 2024, the EU recorded a trade surplus every year except for 2022, when high energy prices led to a significant deficit. In all oth...
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The trade balance of energy products is calculated, for each Member State, as the difference between exports and imports from the rest of the world (intra-EU and extra-EU trade) of goods included in the SITC section 3 - Mineral fuels, lubricants and related materials. The MIP indicator is expr...
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