The office provided no revised figure for the year-ago period, but in November 2008 it said that the country's nine-month trade gap had widened to a preliminary 2.28 billion euro from 1.32 billion euro a year earlier.
Details follow:
Jan-Sept '09 (in millions of euro) | y/y pct change | |
Exports | 11,883 | -22.3 |
- EU | 8,250.4 | -21.6 |
- Other | 3,563.7 | -23.9 |
Imports | 12,435.6 | -29.5 |
- EU | 9,698.7 | -29.8 |
- Other | 2,736.9 | -28.2 |
BALANCE | -552.5 | n/a |
($=0.6671 euro)