European trade with the rest of the world declined in May

For its part, the euro area recorded a 14.5% decrease in the trade balance of the rest of the world and the rest of the world. the same period of the previous year, also reviewed the information.

Figures published by Eurostat also reflect that goods exports from countries that share the currency fell eight tenths and reached 189,600 million euros.

In contrast, adds the report, imports of goods rose eight-tenths and exceeded 173 billion euros.

Compared to the data obtained in May of the previous year, the trading activity of the euro partners increased by 0.5 percent and alca It increased the value of 162, 3 billion euros.

At the end of the first five months of the year, Eurostat reported, business activity for stakeholders in the euro area increased by 4.8 percent, to 808 billion In short, transactions between euro area countries showed a 2.8% increase in both exports and imports.

The EU had its biggest buyer in the United States at the end of the first five months of the year

The volume of exports from the European bloc to the northern nation reached a value of 163 thousand 100 million euros, almost double the amount sold to China, which reached 82 thousand 300 million euros.

For its part, the Asian giant is the largest supplier of goods from the EU to register 151 thousand 300 million euros.

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