The office did not provide a revised figure for the year-ago period, but in October 2008 it said that the country's eight-month trade gap had widened to 1.995 billion euro from 1.084 billion euro a year earlier.
Jan-Aug '09 (in millions of euro) | y/y pct change | |
Exports | 10,387 | -22.6 |
- EU | 7,250.2 | -22.5 |
- Other | 3,136.8 | -22.8 |
Imports | 10,887.6 | -29.9 |
- EU | 8,457.5 | -30.3 |
- Other | 2,430.1 | -28.2 |
BALANCE | -500.5 | n/a |
($=0.6792 euro)