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BRUSSELS, Oct 20 (KUNA) -- The international trade deficit of the 27-member
European Union was 37.1 billion euro in the second quarter of 2010, compared
with a deficit of 42.1 bn euro in the second quarter of 2009 and a deficit of
31.8 bn euro in the first quarter of 2010.
In the second quarter of 2010, compared with the second quarter of 2009,
the deficits of the goods account (-29.9 bn euro compared with -14.9 bn) and
the current transfers account (-14.2 bn compared with -11.9 bn) both
increased, according to figures released today by Eurostat, the EU's
statistics office.
In the second quarter of 2010, the EU external current account recorded a
surplus with the USA (+19.4 bn euro), Switzerland (+9.6 bn), Hong Kong (+5.7
bn), Brazil (+5.2 bn), Canada and India (both +1.8 bn), and a deficit with
China (-31.5 bn), Russia (-13.0 bn) and Japan (-8.6 bn).
In the second quarter of 2010, the EU made direct investments abroad of 50.1
bn euro, compared with 75.0 bn euro in the same quarter of 2009, while foreign
direct investors recorded Disinvestments in the EU of 12.0 bn, compared with
investments of 81.4 bn in the same quarter of 2009. (end)
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