Croatia's trade deficit increased to 25.6 billion kuna ($3.6 billion/3.4 billion euro) in the first quarter of this year, compared with a gap of 17.2 billion kuna in the same period of 2021, the country's statistical office said on Monday.
Exports rose 36.6% on the year to 41.7 billion kuna in the January-March period, while imports grew 41.2% to 67.4 billion kuna, the Croatian Bureau of Statistics said in a statement, quoting preliminary data.
Croatia's exports to the European Union (EU) increased by 42.9% year-on-year in the review period, reaching 30.2 billion kuna, whereas the country's imports from the EU rose by 31.8% to 50.1 billion kuna.
Croatia's trade deficit rose by 13% to 69.3 billion kuna last year.
(1 euro = 7.532 Croatian kuna)