Austria Trade Deficit Widens in December

2026-03-09 10:40 By Kyrie Dichosa 1 min. read

Austria's trade deficit widened to €1.30 billion in December 2025 from €0.83 billion a year earlier, marking the largest monthly shortfall of the year, as imports rose 13.1% and exports increased 6.2%.

For the full year, the trade balance shifted to a deficit of €6.58 billion from a surplus of €2.19 billion in 2024, with imports up 4.1% to €196.72 billion and exports down 0.5% to €190.14 billion.

Intra-EU trade remained largely balanced, with imports of €128.73 billion (+2.6%) and exports of €128.95 billion (+0.6%), leaving a €0.22 billion surplus, down from €2.68 billion.

Trade with non-EU countries showed a deficit of €6.80 billion, as imports climbed 7.1% to €67.99 billion and exports fell 2.9% to €61.19 billion.

Germany remained Austria’s top partner, the US generated the largest surplus, and China the largest deficit.

By product, machinery and vehicles dominated trade.



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