Foreign trade and import prices - September 2025

In September 2025, seasonally adjusted data, compared to August 2025, increased both for exports (+2.6%) and imports (+4.1%). Exports rose by 6.4% for non-EU countries, while they decreased for EU countries (-0.8%). Imports rose by +8.1% for non-EU countries and by +1.3% for EU countries.

Over the last quarter, compared to the previous one, seasonally-adjusted data increased both for exports (+2.0%) and for imports (+0.1%).

In September 2025, compared to the same month of the previous year, exports grew by +10.5% and imports by +9.9%. Outgoing flows rose for non-EU countries (+10.9%) and for EU countries (+10,2%). Incoming flows increased both for non-EU area (+13.7%) and for EU area (+7.2%).

In September, trade balance registered a surplus of +2,852 million Euros (-42 million Euros deficit for EU countries and +2,895 million Euros surplus for non-EU countries). Excluding energy, the trade balance recorded a surplus of +6,244 million Euros.

In September 2025, import prices decreased by 0.2% on monthly basis (+0.2 for the euro zone, -0.6% for the non-euro zone). Over the last three months, compared to the previous three months, import prices decreased by 0.6% (unchanged for the euro zone, -0.8% for the non-euro zone).

Import prices, compared to the same month a year ago, decreased by 2.5% (-1.6% for the euro zone, -3.1% for the non-euro zone).

2024 data on foreign trade have been revised and made final. The online database “External Trade Statistics” has been updated.