A 25.2% drop in the deficit, a 35.7% rise in exports and a 9.6% increase in imports were recorded in Greece in April, according to ELSTAT.<\/p>\n
The trade balance<\/strong> deficit narrowed significantly in April, according to ELSTAT<\/strong> data, as the increase in exports<\/strong> was almost four times that of imports<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The total value of imports<\/strong> in April was 7.353.2 million<\/strong>, compared to 6,712.1 million in the corresponding month of 2025, recording an increase of 9.6%<\/strong>. Excluding petroleum products<\/strong>, imports fell by \u20ac49.1 million or 0.9%, while excluding petroleum products and shipping<\/strong>, there was a marginal increase of \u20ac13.2 million or 0.2%.<\/p>\n In the same period, the value of exports<\/strong> stood at 5.197.2 million<\/strong>, up from \u20ac3,831.0 million in April 2025, representing a increase of 35.7%<\/strong>. Excluding petroleum products, exports increased by \u20ac246.6 million or 7.9%, while excluding petroleum products and ships the increase was also 7.9%.<\/p>\n As a result, the trade balance<\/strong> deficit narrowed to 2.156.0 million<\/strong>, compared to \u20ac2,881.1 million in April 2025, showing a decrease of 25.2%<\/strong>. Excluding oil products, the decrease amounted to \u20ac295.7 million or 11.5%, while excluding oil products and ships it was \u20ac233.5 million or 9.5%.<\/p>\n At the level of the first quarter of 2026<\/strong>, imports amounted to 28,210.8 million euros<\/strong>, up 3.3% compared to the same period in 2025. Excluding oil products and ships, the increase was limited to 1.7%.<\/p>\n Exports<\/strong> in the first quarter of the year reached 17.771.5 million<\/strong>, up from \u20ac15,972.6 million a year earlier, recording an 11.3%<\/strong> increase. Excluding oil products, the increase was 4.2%, while excluding oil products and ships it was 4.1%.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, the trade balance<\/strong> deficit in the first quarter narrowed to 10.439.3 million<\/strong>, down from 11,343.1 million in the corresponding period in 2025, marking an decrease of 8%<\/strong>. Excluding oil products the decline reached 1.8%, while excluding oil products and ships it was 1.6%.<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Greece recorded a 25.2% decline in its deficit, a 35.7% rise in exports and a 9.6% increase in imports in April, according to ELSTAT. A significant …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.tomanifesto.gr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Exports and imports boosted the overall picture<\/h2>\n
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