{"id":38844,"date":"2026-05-11T23:42:49","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/38844\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T23:42:49","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T23:42:49","slug":"euro-dominates-extra-eu-trade-in-primary-goods-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/38844\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro dominates extra-EU trade in primary goods – News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2025, the euro<\/a> was the most used currency for extra-EU<\/a> imports<\/a> of primary goods, excluding petroleum, representing a 47.4% share. It was closely followed by the US dollar at 45.0%. Currencies of EU countries other than the euro stood at 1.7%, and other currencies at 5.3%.<\/p>\n

However, the US dollar stood out as the main currency used for imports of petroleum products with a share of 86.7% in 2025, far ahead of the euro (12.9%), while other EU currencies and non-EU currencies only accounted for 0.2% and 0.1%, respectively.<\/p>\n

In manufactured goods, the US dollar was also the main currency (46.2%), just ahead of the euro (43.3%) with other EU currencies at 1.7% and non-EU currencies at 8.5%.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Extra-EU<\/a><\/p>\n

Source dataset: ext_lt_invcur<\/a><\/p>\n

With 62.2%, the euro was also the most used currency for extra-EU exports<\/a> in primary goods, ahead of the US dollar with 22.9%, other EU currencies (2.5%) and non-EU currencies (12.1%).<\/p>\n

Regarding petroleum products, the US dollar (70.1%) was also the most used currency for exports, although somewhat less dominant than in imports, while the euro had a share of a little more than a quarter (27.5%). In manufactured goods, the share of the euro was 50.4%, while the US dollar had 32.4%, other EU currencies 1.8% and non-EU currencies 15.2%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2025, the euro was the most used currency for extra-EU imports of primary goods, excluding petroleum, representing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[520,39,40,8798,634],"class_list":{"0":"post-38844","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-data-driven-news","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-european-union","11":"tag-ext","12":"tag-international-trade"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}