Foreign trade and import prices - July 2025

In July 2025, seasonally adjusted data, compared to June 2025, increased both for exports (+1.2%) and imports (+0.7%). Exports rose by 2.4% for non-EU countries, while they stayed unchanged for EU countries. Imports grew by +3.1% for non-EU countries, while declined by -1.2% for EU countries.

Over the last quarter, seasonally-adjusted data, compared to the previous one, declined for both exports       (-1.5%) and imports (-1.8%).

In July 2025, compared to the same month of the previous year, exports increased by +7.3% and imports by +6.1%. Outgoing flows rose for both non-EU countries (+9.9%) and EU countries (+4.8%). Incoming flows grew by +13.1% for non-EU area and by +0.8% for EU area.

In July, trade balance registered a surplus of +7,908 million Euros (+5,990 million Euros surplus for non-EU countries and +1,917 million Euros surplus for EU countries). Excluding energy, trade balance surplus amounted to +12,019 million Euros.

In July 2025, import prices increased by 0.3% on monthly basis (stayed unchanged for the euro zone, +0.5% for the non-euro zone).

Over the last three months, compared to the previous three months, import prices decreased by 2.3% (-0.6% for the euro zone, -3.6% for the non-euro zone).

Import prices, compared to the same month a year ago, decreased by 3.0% (-1.7% for the euro zone, -4.1% for the non-euro zone).