Foreign trade and import prices - January 2025

In January 2025, seasonally adjusted data, compared to December 2024, increased both for exports (+0.6%) and for imports (+3.2%). Exports rose by +1.8% for EU countries and fell by -0.6% for non-EU countries. Imports increased by +2.8% for EU countries and by +3.6% for non-EU countries.

Over the last quarter, seasonally-adjusted data, compared to the previous one, increased for both exports      and imports by +2.2%.

In January 2025, compared to the same month of the previous year, exports rose by +2.5% and imports by +8.8%. Outgoing flows increased by +1.9% for EU countries and by +3.3% for non-EU countries. Incoming flows grew by +2.2% for the EU area and by +18.0% for the extra-EU area.

In January 2025, trade balance registered a deficit of -264 million Euros (-635 million euros deficit for EU countries and +370 million euros surplus for non-EU countries). Excluding energy, trade balance surplus amounted to +4,428 million Euros.

In January 2025, import prices increased by 0.4% on monthly basis (+0.2% for the euro zone, +0.5% for the non-euro zone). Over the last three months, compared to the previous three months, import prices increased by 0.2% (-0.5% for the euro zone, +0.8% for the non-euro zone).

Import prices, compared to the same month a year ago, rose by 1.4% (-0.1% for the euro zone, +2.7% for the non-euro zone).