{
  "study": {
    "slug": "extra-eu-trade-balance-in-the-eu",
    "title": "Germany's Goods Surplus With the Rest of the World Is Larger Than the Whole EU's",
    "url": "https://www.silverdatalab.com/studies/extra-eu-trade-balance-in-the-eu"
  },
  "table": 1,
  "language": "en",
  "caption": "Trade balance in goods with non-EU countries, 2025",
  "valueHeading": "million euro",
  "selection": "Three largest surpluses and three largest deficits among EU Member States. The EU figure is a total rather than an average and is not drawn as a row: it is 114,139 million euro.",
  "decimals": 0,
  "referenceLabel": null,
  "note": "The Dutch and Belgian deficits include goods declared at Rotterdam and Antwerp on their way to other Member States, which Eurostat records as quasi-transit.",
  "derived": [
    "gap_to_reference"
  ],
  "flags": "source_flag carries the publisher's own status letters on the cell: p provisional, e estimated, b break in time series, d definition differs, u low reliability, i imputed",
  "source": {
    "publisher": "Eurostat",
    "dataset": "Intra and extra-EU trade by Member State and by product group",
    "code": "ext_lt_intratrd",
    "filters": {
      "freq": "A",
      "indic_et": "MIO_BAL_VAL",
      "partner": "EXT_EU27_2020",
      "sitc06": "TOTAL",
      "time": "2025"
    },
    "extractedOn": "2026-09-17",
    "lastUpdated": "2026-09-15",
    "doi": "https://doi.org/10.2908/ext_lt_intratrd",
    "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/ext_lt_intratrd/default/table?lang=en"
  },
  "licence": {
    "analysis": "CC BY 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "statistics": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/about-us/policies/copyright"
  },
  "rows": [
    {
      "rank": 1,
      "name": "Germany",
      "value": 215889.8,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "name": "Ireland",
      "value": 88507.3,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "name": "Italy",
      "value": 56246.8,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "name": "Belgium",
      "value": -29340.3,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 5,
      "name": "Spain",
      "value": -51798.5,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    },
    {
      "rank": 6,
      "name": "Netherlands",
      "value": -175209.2,
      "gap_to_reference": null,
      "reference": false,
      "source_flag": null
    }
  ]
}