Foreign trade and import prices - February 2025

In February 2025, seasonally adjusted data, compared to January 2025, increased both for exports (+3.5%) and for imports (+1.7%). Exports rose by +3.7% for EU countries and by +3.2% for non-EU countries. Imports grew by +2.4% for EU countries and by +0.8% for non-EU countries.

Over the last quarter, seasonally-adjusted data, compared to the previous one, increased for both exports       (+4.0%) and imports (+3.0%).

In February 2025, compared to the same month of the previous year, exports increased by +0.8% and imports by +4.1%. Outgoing flows rose for EU countries (+3.0%), while they decreased for non-EU countries (-1.6%). Incoming flows increased by +1.0% for the EU area and by +8.7% for the extra-EU area.

In February 2025, trade balance registered a surplus of +4,466 million Euros (-361 million euros deficit for EU countries and +4,827 million euros surplus for non-EU countries). Excluding energy, trade balance surplus amounted to +9,466 million Euros.

In February 2025, import prices increased by 0.6% on monthly basis (+0.2% for the euro zone, +1.0% for the non-euro zone). Over the last three months, compared to the previous three months, import prices increased by 0.8% (-0.5% for the euro zone, +2.1% for the non-euro zone).

Import prices, compared to the same month a year ago, increased by 2.2%; they stayed unchanged for the euro zone and rose by +4.2% for the non-euro zone.