EU: 12-month trade surplus in agri-food €18 billion
Considering that agri-food imports from third countries in the 12-month period November 2015 to October 2016 slightly decreased to reach €112 billion, the export surplus for the 12-month period thus increased to more than €18 billion.
The latest figures from October 2016 show that Japan has now overtaken Russia as the 4th most important export destination of EU agri-food products after the USA, China and Switzerland. The EU net-surplus in agri-food trade with Japan has been around €5 billion annually for the last years.