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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8894

23 February 2005
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/economy
2004 trade deficit up in euro zone

Brussels, 22/02/2005 (Agence Europe) - The Member States of the euro zone recorded a trade deficit on the up in 2004, to 74.4 billion EUR, compared to 69.7 billion in 2003, according to initial estimations published on Tuesday by Eurostat. Exports grew by 8% and imports by 9% in 2004 compared to the previous year. Only in the month of December 2004 did the trade balance of the euro zone record a surplus of 5.7 billion EUR, against 2.7 billion EUR (adjusted figure) the previous month. In the...

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