Foreign trade and import prices - April 2025

In April 2025, seasonally adjusted data, compared to March 2025, decreased for exports (-2.8%) and rose slightly for imports (+0.3%). Exports declined by -7.0% for non-EU countries and increased by +1.5% for EU countries. Imports grew by +1.6% for non-EU countries and fell by -0.7% for EU countries.

Over the last quarter, seasonally-adjusted data, compared to the previous one, increased for both exports       (+3.1%) and imports (+2.9%).

In April 2025, compared to the same month of the previous year, exports increased by +0.4% and imports by +5.4%. Outgoing flows rose for EU countries (+2.1%) but fell for non-EU countries (-1.4%). Incoming flows increased by +0.8% for the EU area and by +11.5% for the extra-EU area.

In April 2025, trade balance registered a surplus of +2,482 million Euros (+162 million euros surplus for EU countries and +2,320 million euros surplus for non-EU countries). Excluding energy, trade balance surplus amounted to +6,730 million Euros.

In April 2025, import prices decreased by 1.2% on monthly basis (-0.6% for the euro zone, -1.8% for the non-euro zone). Over the last three months, compared to the previous three months, import prices decreased by 0.1% (-0.5% for the euro zone, +0.2% for the non-euro zone).

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