Signal The EU's goods trade deficit with China reached about 360 billion euros in 2025

Summary

Eurostat data show EU goods exports to China of 199.6 billion euros in 2025 against imports of 559.4 billion euros, leaving a goods deficit of 359.8 billion euros. Compared with 2024, exports fell 6.5 percent while imports rose 6.4 percent. Over the decade since 2015 exports grew 37.1 percent but imports climbed 89.0 percent. The report reads this imbalance as a sign that the EU is exposed at once to expanding Chinese manufacturing supply and to tougher competition inside the Chinese market. It links the trend directly to the current debate over Chinese industrial overcapacity and its spillover into European markets.