{"id":952277,"date":"2026-05-11T09:09:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/952277\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T09:09:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T09:09:16","slug":"euro-dominates-extra-eu-trade-in-primary-goods-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/952277\/","title":{"rendered":"Euro dominates extra-EU trade in primary goods &#8211; News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In 2025, the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Euro\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">euro<\/a> was the most used currency for <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Extra-EU_and_intra-EU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">extra-EU<\/a> <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Import\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">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<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">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<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/documents\/d\/products-eurostat-news\/currency_trade_visual_01_alt_1920x1080_v2-100-003-\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Extra-EU trade by product group and currency, 2025. Bar chart - Click below to see full dataset.\" data-fileentryid=\"23655575\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Currency_Trade_Visual_01_ALT_1920x1080_V2-100 (003).jpg\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-align-center ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/view\/ext_lt_invcur__custom_21307968\/default\/table\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ext_lt_invcur<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">With 62.2%, the euro was also the most used currency for extra-EU <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Export\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":952278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5174],"tags":[64410,2000,299,5187,111240,3058],"class_list":["post-952277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-eu","tag-data-driven-news","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-ext","tag-international-trade"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116555165515660384","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952277","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=952277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/952277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/952278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=952277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=952277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=952277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}