EU reports €28 billion trade surplus for final quarter of 2025

The European Union achieved a total trade surplus of €28.4 billion during the final quarter of 2025 as the value of goods exported to non-EU nations continued to outpace imports, according to Eurostat.

This latest performance maintains a consistent positive trade balance for the bloc which was first established in the third quarter of 2023.

The current era of surpluses follows a difficult period of significant trade deficits that were primarily driven by soaring energy costs between late 2021 and mid-2023.