Exports

Portugal’s trade deficit widened by around 15% in the first nine months of 2025 compared to the same period in 2024. It means that in a year plagued by a high degree of economic and geopolitical [...]

The Business Confederation of Portugal/business school ISEG’s monthly barometer for December 2025 has confirmed Portugal’s end-of-year economic buoyancy and expects an uptick in the [...]

Although the exposure of Portuguese companies to the situation in Venezuela is “slight”, in the past Venezuela had been a good market for Portuguese companies and those companies set up in the [...]

Portuguese tannery exports grew by 5.8% year-on-year up to September 2025, reflecting the recovery in external demand and the ongoing efforts of the sector to modernise production. Portuguese [...]

Portuguese families were partly behind Portugal ’s growth success story in 2025 highlighted by the UK magazine The Economist. Portugal was elected the ‘economy of the year’ for 2025 partly on the [...]

Portugal continues to post a surplus from commercial services, particularly thanks to tourism, but with all the uncertainty over the current trade wars instigated by the US, that surplus has [...]

Two years ago the Portuguese Enterprise Association (AEP) launched a challenge for overseas exports to reach 60% of Portugal’s GDP in 2030. However, Europe’s cooling economy amid global [...]

A cooling of economic activity from Portugal’s main trading partners Spain, France, Germany, the UK and the US is having a negative knock-on effect for Portuguese exporters affecting 65% of [...]

Exports of goods from Portugal slumped by 11.3% while imports edged up to 2.8% in July in like-for-like terms, accumulating an 0.7% increase and 6.3% since the start of the year, according to [...]

Portugal’s footwear sector is expecting that this will be a year of consolidation in international markets despite instability with the sector exporting 90% of its production. “We expect that [...]