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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8652

25 February 2004
Contents Publication in full By article 52 / 53
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/economy
Trade surplus of euro zone falls in 2003

Brussels, 24/02/2004 (Agence Europe) - Over the whole of the year 2003, the euro zone saw its foreign trade surplus with the rest of the world fall by EUR 72.5 billion (EUR 98.9 billion in 2002) according to data provided last Thursday by Eurostat. In the EU as a whole (EU15), trade with third countries stood at a deficit of EUR 11.8 billion in 2003 (surplus of EUR 7.9 billion in 2002). Eurostat considers that the deterioration of the trade balance in 2003 in the euro zone and the EU is due...

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