DREM releases the “International Trade Statistics-2017” publication

DREM releases today the annual publication “International Trade Statistics” (only available in Portuguese) which includes the provisional data for the year of 2017. The publication tables also include the final results for 2015 and 2016.

Summary of the main indicators

In 2017, the trade balance of goods of the Autonomous Region of Madeira with foreign countries recorded a surplus of 5.6 million Euros. In the previous year, the trade deficit had stood at 30.0 million Euros.

From 2016 to 2017, both exports and imports increased by 48.6% and 9.6%, respectively. Madeira had a foreign trade surplus with Third Countries (87.6 million Euros) and a deficit with the INTRA-EU countries (-82.1 million Euros).

Exports for INTRA-EU countries increased from 34.5 million Euros in 2016 to 40.8 million Euros in 2017, while imports from those countries increased from 115.4 million Euros in 2016 to 122.9 million Euros in 2017.

There was a increase in the trade with Third Countries, since exports rose from 64.3 in 2016 to 105.9 million Euros in 2017, while in the same order, imports from those countries went up from 13.4 to 18.3 million Euros.

DREM releases an update of the time series on International Trade Statistics (1976-2017)

Following the release of the publication "International Trade Statistics/2017 - Provisional Results", DREM updated the time series on International Trade Statistics.

Although this series contains data from 1976 to 2017, the figures are more detailed for the period from 1993 onwards. A summary table with the main results for 1976-1992, which includes information about the trade with the rest of the country, i.e. Mainland Portugal and the Azores, is also available.

Besides the breakdown by intra and extra-EU trade, the data is available according to:

- Economic areas and main countries;
- Product group;
- Section and chapter of the Combined Nomenclature (CN);
- Classification of Broad Economic Categories (BEC);
- Classification of Products by Activity (CPA);
- Classification of Economic Activities (CAE).

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