Foreign trade and industrial import prices - October 2025

In October 2025, seasonally adjusted data, compared to September 2025, decreased for exports (-3.0%) and slightly increased for imports (+0,3%). Exports fell by -3.2% for non-EU countries and by -2.8% for EU countries. Imports rose by +0.9% for EU countries, while they declined by -0.5% for non-EU countries.

Over the last quarter, compared to the previous one, seasonally-adjusted data increased both for exports (+0.2%) and for imports (+0.3%).

In October 2025, compared to the same month of the previous year, exports grew by +2.3% and imports by +3.4%. Outgoing flows rose by +4.1% for non-EU countries and by +0.5% for EU countries. Incoming flows increased both for non-EU area (+4.2%) and for EU area (+2.7%).

In October, trade balance registered a surplus of +4,156 million Euros (-1,310 million Euros deficit for EU countries and +5,466 million Euros surplus for non-EU countries). Excluding energy, the trade balance recorded a surplus of +7,801 million Euros.

In October 2025, import prices decreased by 0.3% on monthly basis (+0.1 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 0.5% (unchanged for the euro zone, -0.9% for the non-euro zone).

Import prices, compared to the same month a year ago, decreased by 2.7% (-1.5% for the euro zone, -3.6% for the non-euro zone).