EU trade report · 2025-08
EU trade report: August 2025
In August 2025, the EU imported goods worth €192.9B from outside the EU (−4.1% on August 2024) and exported goods worth €185.4B (−6.1%). Compared with July 2025, imports changed by −12.1% and exports by −19.1%.
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Imports that grew the most
- Hormones, steroids and insulin (HS 2937): €1.5B in August 2025, +€944.8M on August 2024 (+163.8%).
- Turbojets, turboprops and gas turbines (HS 8411): €4B in August 2025, +€667.4M on August 2024 (+20.2%).
- Coffee, green and roasted beans (HS 0901): €1.5B in August 2025, +€442M on August 2024 (+43%).
- Integrated circuits, chips and microprocessors (HS 8542): €3.1B in August 2025, +€392.7M on August 2024 (+14.6%).
- Nitrogen heterocyclic compounds (melamine, caprolactam) (HS 2933): €2.3B in August 2025, +€329.4M on August 2024 (+16.4%).
Imports that fell the most
- Crude oil (HS 2709): €17.6B in August 2025, −€5.7B on August 2024 (−24.4%).
- Refined petroleum products (gasoline, diesel, fuel oil) (HS 2710): €5B in August 2025, −€758M on August 2024 (−13.1%).
- Semiconductors, diodes, transistors, solar panels and LEDs (HS 8541): €1.2B in August 2025, −€339.4M on August 2024 (−22.3%).
- Televisions, monitors and projectors (HS 8528): €713.4M in August 2025, −€270.1M on August 2024 (−27.5%).
- Luggage, handbags, wallets and cases (HS 4202): €793.6M in August 2025, −€186.4M on August 2024 (−19%).
Suppliers with the largest growth
- Vietnam: €5.4B in August 2025, +€723.7M on August 2024 (+15.5%).
- Singapore: €1.9B in August 2025, +€622.4M on August 2024 (+48.6%).
- Switzerland: €9.7B in August 2025, +€311.4M on August 2024 (+3.3%).
- Thailand: €2.4B in August 2025, +€298.5M on August 2024 (+14.4%).
- Egypt: €997.2M in August 2025, +€213.8M on August 2024 (+27.3%).
Suppliers with the largest decline
- China: €44.2B in August 2025, −€3B on August 2024 (−6.4%).
- Iraq: €941.5M in August 2025, −€813.4M on August 2024 (−46.4%).
- United Kingdom: €11.8B in August 2025, −€758.9M on August 2024 (−6%).
- Taiwan: €3B in August 2025, −€656M on August 2024 (−17.9%).
- Libya: €1.5B in August 2025, −€580M on August 2024 (−27.4%).
Türkiye and the EU
EU imports from Türkiye were €7.2B in August 2025 (−2.4% on August 2024); EU exports to Türkiye were €7.4B (−10.3%).
Products from Türkiye with the largest growth
- Buses, coaches and minibuses (HS 8702): €191.1M in August 2025, +€96.6M on August 2024 (+102.1%).
- Trucks, lorries and pickups (HS 8704): €336.6M in August 2025, +€72.3M on August 2024 (+27.3%).
- Unmanned aircraft, drones (HS 8806): €55.6M in August 2025, +€55.6M on August 2024.
- Tractors and road tractors (HS 8701): €94.3M in August 2025, +€50.4M on August 2024 (+115%).
- Refined copper cathodes and copper alloys, unwrought (HS 7403): €29.5M in August 2025, +€28M on August 2024.
Values are the extra EU trade of the member states in euros, from Eurostat Comext (DS-045409). Changes compare the same month a year earlier. Products and suppliers are ranked when the month or the month a year earlier reaches EUR 20 million. See every change by member state, product and partner in the EU trade movers of August 2025.
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- Eurostat Comext DS-045409: monthly trade of the EU member states with countries outside the EU, by product and partner, in euros, months 2025-07, 2025-08, 2024-08. Licence: Eurostat reuse policy, free reuse with attribution. DS-045409:EU27:EXTRA:TOTAL:2025-08
- Method: sums of the values the member states report; changes against the same month a year earlier; products and suppliers ranked by the change in euros.
Trade database built 2026-10-25. Values are official statistics as published; nothing on this page is estimated or invented. Data sources and methodology
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