The European Union recorded a €40.8 billion trade surplus with the United States in the third quarter of 2025, a 13.3 percent decline from the second quarter (€47.1 billion) and a 49.7 percent fall from the first quarter (€81.2 billion). The first‑quarter surplus had risen sharply as EU exports to the U.S. increased ahead of possible tariff measures. In Q3, the EU maintained surpluses in chemicals and related products, machinery and vehicles, other manufactured goods, and food and drink, while running deficits in energy, raw materials and other goods. The chemicals surplus fell from €54.1 billion in Q1 to €24.7 billion in Q2 and €23.0 billion in Q3. Since early 2021, U.S. imports have largely matched those from the rest of the world, but after Russia’s war in Ukraine the EU increased energy imports from the U.S., keeping them comparatively higher.
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