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BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union’s goods trade surplus with the United States expanded in April even after U.S. tariffs<\/a>, data released on Friday showed, while the bloc’s exports to China dropped for a ninth consecutive month.<\/p>\n

The EU’s surplus in goods trade as a whole declined to 7.4 billion euros ($8.5 billion) from 12.7 billion euros in April 2024, data from EU statistics agency Eurostat showed.<\/p>\n

The EU goods surplus with the United States increased, as it has done every month since January 2024.<\/p>\n

Both exports to and imports from the United States increased for a fourth consecutive month in April, although the growth was lower than in previous months.<\/p>\n

U.S. President Donald Trump<\/a> has announced wideranging tariffs on trade partners, and wants to reduce the U.S. goods trade deficit with the EU.<\/p>\n

In March, EU exports to the U.S. rose by 59.5%, implying U.S. importers were building stocks of EU and other goods ahead of tariff increases.<\/p>\n

European Union exporters faced 25% tariffs on steel and aluminium from March 11, on cars from April 3 and on car parts from May 3. Washington doubled the rate on metals to 50% on June 4.<\/p>\n

It also imposed so-called “reciprocal” tariffs on most EU goods on April 5, initially at 20%, but almost immediately cut to 10% until July 8.<\/p>\n

The bloc’s surpluses with Britain, Switzerland and Mexico fell, while its deficits with China, Norway and South Korea widened in April.<\/p>\n

EU exports of machinery and vehicles to the rest of the world fell by 4.3%. There were also declines of its exports of raw materials and energy products, while food and drink and chemicals exports were higher than in April 2024.<\/p>\n

($1 = 0.8681 euros)<\/p>\n

(Reporting by Philip Blenkinsop; Editing by Toby Chopra)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRUSSELS (Reuters) -The European Union’s goods trade surplus with the United States expanded in April even after U.S.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181021,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[26945,73022,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-181020","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-the-european-union","9":"tag-trade-surplus","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-us","12":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114675973056545298","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}