Press Release - International trade in services EU trade in services continued to rise strongly in 2015… ... but total surplus down for a second consecutive year
The international trade in services of the European Union (EU) has increased steadily and significantly over the last six years.
EU exports of services to the rest of the world rose by 42%, from €569.5 billion in 2010 to €811.2 bn in 2015, while imports grew slightly more rapidly (+43%) from €461.6 bn to €660.5 bn. As a consequence, the EU trade surplus in services, which had steadily increased between 2010 and 2013, has decreased for the second consecutive year in 2015 to €150.7 bn.
This growth in EU's international trade in services over the period 2010-2015 is around twice as high as the growth in the EU's international trade in goods over this same time period.
page source http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat
