Foreign trade and import prices - August 2025

In August 2025, seasonally adjusted data, compared to July 2025, decreased both for exports (-2.7%) and imports (-3.7%). Exports rose by 2.1% for EU countries, while they fell for non-EU countries (-7,7%). Imports declined by -7.0% for non-EU countries and by -1.2% for EU countries.

Over the last quarter, seasonally-adjusted data, compared to the previous one, increased for exports (+1,2%) and registered a slight decrease for imports (-0.3%).

In August 2025, compared to the same month of the previous year, exports declined by -1.1% and imports by -3.0%. Outgoing flows rose for EU countries (+5.4%) and fell for non-EU countries (-7.0%). Incoming flows decreased both for EU area (-3.0%) and for non-EU area (-2.9%).

In August, trade balance registered a surplus of +2,050 million Euros (+172 million Euros surplus for EU countries and +1,878 million Euros surplus for non-EU countries). Excluding energy, trade balance surplus amounted to +5,481 million Euros.

In August 2025, import prices decreased by 0.6% on monthly basis (-0.3 for the euro zone, -0.8% for the non-euro zone). Over the last three months, compared to the previous three months, import prices decreased by 1.1% (-0.2% for the euro zone, -1.9% for the non-euro zone).

Import prices, compared to the same month a year ago, decreased by 3.0% (-1.8% for the euro zone, -4.0% for the non-euro zone).