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Eurozone trade in goods at surplus of 24.3 bln euros last Dec.

Xinhua, February 16, 2015 Adjust font size:

Eurozone international trade in goods reached a surplus of 24.3 billion euros (27.7 billion U.S. dollars) in December 2014, the statistical office of the European Union (EU) Eurostat said on Monday.

Compared with the previous month, seasonally adjusted exports fell by 1.1 percent and imports by 2.4 percent in the eurozone.

However, between January and November 2014, the then 18-country euro area trade in goods recorded a surplus of 194.8 billion euros, compared with 152.3 billion in 2013.

By contrast, the 28-nation EU region recorded a yearly goods trade surplus of 24.2 billion euros in 2014, down from 51.8 billion euros in 2013. Endit