{"id":448880,"date":"2025-09-24T21:45:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/448880\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T21:45:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T21:45:15","slug":"how-does-sport-contribute-to-trade-in-the-eu-actualites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/448880\/","title":{"rendered":"How does sport contribute to trade in the EU? &#8211; Actualit\u00e9s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In 2024, the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Extra-EU_and_intra-EU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">extra-EU<\/a> imports of sporting goods amounted to \u20ac10.8 billion, accounting for 0.4% of total <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:European_Union_(EU)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EU<\/a> imports. The value of total extra-EU exports was \u20ac7.3 billion (0.3% of total EU exports).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">\u2018Sports footwear\u2019, \u2018gym, swim and athletic equipment\u2019 and \u2018boats and water sport equipment\u2019 were the main categories of EU imports in terms of value, while \u2018boats and water sport equipment\u2019, \u2018gym, swim and athletic equipment\u2019 and \u2018sports footwear\u2019 were the key exports.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1bf6533e-5dc5-5737-21db-757b800f3b2f\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Extra-EU trade in sporting goods, 2024. Infographic - Click below to see full dataset.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1bf6533e-5dc5-5737-21db-757b800f3b2f\" style=\"margin: 0px;\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph ecl-u-type-align-center\">Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/dc30e42d-028f-42ea-a48b-33124641246e?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sprt_trd_prt<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">The main import partners for sporting goods in 2024 were China (\u20ac4.5 billion), Vietnam (\u20ac1.9 billion) and Indonesia (\u20ac0.5 billion), while the United States (\u20ac1.6 billion), the United Kingdom (\u20ac1.0 billion) and Switzerland (\u20ac0.9 billion) were the biggest partners for exports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Check out these and more facts from Eurostat\u2019s <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/product?code=KS-01-25-036\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">infographic on activity and impact of sport in the EU<\/a>, released to mark the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sport.ec.europa.eu\/european-week-of-sport\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">European week of sports<\/a> (23-30 September).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2024, the extra-EU imports of sporting goods amounted to \u20ac10.8 billion, accounting for 0.4% of total EU&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":448881,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[2000,299,5187,1699,3058,64411,151049,115368],"class_list":{"0":"post-448880","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-european","11":"tag-european-union","12":"tag-international-trade","13":"tag-population-and-social-conditions","14":"tag-sprt","15":"tag-website-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115261468237272981","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448880","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=448880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/448881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}