The office did not provide a revised figure for the year-ago period, but in September 2008 it said that the country's seven-month trade gap had widened to 1.684 billion euro from 931.2 million euro a year earlier.
Jan-July '09 (in millions of euro) | y/y pct change | |
Exports | 9,323.3 | -23.0 |
- EU | 6,547.3 | -22.9 |
- Other | 2,776.02 | -23.1 |
Imports | 9,653.5 | -30.4 |
- EU | 7,481.4 | -31.1 |
- Other | 2,172.1 | -28.0 |
BALANCE | -330.19 | n/a |
($=0.6905 euro)