Africa-Press – Cape verde. EU exports to China fell by 6.5% between 2024 and 2025, while imports increased by 6.4%, according to Eurostat, which indicates that Brussels has a trade deficit of 359 billion euros.
According to NM, citing Lusa, the data released on Saturday by Eurostat shows that in 2025, the European Union (EU) exported 199.6 billion euros worth of goods to China, while importing the equivalent of 559.4 billion, resulting in a trade deficit of 359.8 billion.
These figures represent, when compared to 2024, a 6.5% reduction in exports and a 6.4% increase in imports.
However, in relation to the values recorded in 2015, there is an increase of 37.1% in exports and 89% in imports.
According to the same source, the largest groups of products exported to China in 2025 were capital goods or mechanical engineering (22.7% of the total export volume), followed by electronic machinery, audiovisual equipment and accessories (14.5%), motor vehicles, tractors, mopeds and other land vehicles (8.2%), and optical, photographic, cinematographic, precision, medical or surgical instruments (7.5%).
Conversely, the EU imported mainly from China electronic machinery, audiovisual equipment and accessories (29.5%), capital goods or mechanical engineering (19%), organic chemicals (6.1%), and motor vehicles, tractors, mopeds and other land vehicles (5.4%).
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