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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9290
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Euro area external trade deficit of €5.8 bn and €21.5 bn euro deficit for EU25 last August

Luxembourg, 19/10/2006 (Agence Europe) - The first Eurostat estimate for the Euro area trade balance with the rest of the world in August 2006 gave a €5.8 bn Euro deficit, compared with -2.7 bn in figures for the previous year. The July 20062 balance was +1.6 bn, compared with +7.4 bn in July 2005. In August 2006 compared with July 2006, exports, seasonally adjusted, rose by 3.2% and imports by 2.4%. The first estimate for August 2006 extra-EU25 trade was a deficit of 21.5 bn Euro,...

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