{"id":418897,"date":"2025-02-17T13:36:33","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T12:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/02\/17\/eurozona-2024-surplus-commerciale-155-mld\/"},"modified":"2025-02-17T15:48:20","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T14:48:20","slug":"eurozone-december-2024-foreign-goods-trade-surplus-of-15-5-billion-euros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/02\/17\/eurozone-december-2024-foreign-goods-trade-surplus-of-15-5-billion-euros\/","title":{"rendered":"Eurozone, December 2024 foreign goods trade surplus of 15.5 billion euros"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – The increase in goods\u00a0imports in the eurozone exceeds that of exports<\/strong> by 0.7 percentage points. As a result, according to preliminary data from Eurostat<\/a>, the trade balance of the euro area in\u00a0December 2024<\/strong>\u00a0showed\u00a0a surplus with the rest of the world of 15.5 billion, lower than the 16.4 billion in December 2023. The smaller surplus is attributable to the increase in imports from the rest of the world (211 billion euros, up 3.8 percent from\u00a0the 203.3 billion in December 2023), mitigated by a 3.1 percent increase in exports at the end of the year (226.5 billion euros, compared to 219.7 billion in December 2023).<\/p>\n

In the last month of last year, the eurozone recorded “a slight decrease” — of about half a billion euros — in the surplus compared to the previous month. By category, there was a decrease in five sectors. Leading the way were chemical products, which recorded the most significant decline (from 23.0 to 20.6 billion euros). Machinery and vehicles, however, saw a substantial increase, rising from 13.0 to 16.7 billion euros.<\/p>\n

Looking at the partner countries, in December 2024, the trade balance relating to the exchange of goods between EU countries with the single currency and the United States favors the EU.\u00a0<\/strong>European exports increased by 5.6 percent compared to a year earlier, while purchases of products ‘made in the US’ decreased by 10.8 percent. The decline has drawn the spotlight back to bilateral trade relations, which Washington considers too disadvantageous and for which\u00a0US President Donald Trump has decided to start imposing tariffs<\/a> to rebalance import and export flows.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the trade deficit between the Eurozone and China is widening. Compared with December 2023, in\u00a0\u00a0December 2024, there was a decrease in European exports by 8.8 percent and an increase in Chinese imports by 10.3 percent, respectively. As a result, the trade situation is in favor of Beijing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eurostat: imports from third countries increase more than exports. Balance in surplus, but shrinks by 0.7 percentage points. Compared to 2023, lost 0.9 billion euros in trade. Advantages with the United States, imbalances with China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7883,"featured_media":241693,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705],"tags":[28172,30498,26279,26105,25828,26280,26283],"class_list":["post-418897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-surplus-commercial-en","tag-trade-en","tag-dati-eurostat-en","tag-eurozone-en","tag-export-en","tag-importinto"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7883"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418897"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":418910,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418897\/revisions\/418910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}