Exports

Portugal’s overseas trading and investment bureau AICEP says that faced with a growing scenario of economic stagnation in the Euro Zone, Portugal’s exports would have to grow 3.4% per year to [...]

At the end of July, Portugal’s Minister of Infrastructures, Miguel Pinto Luz, presented the government’s strategy for its ports for 2025-2035. The minister said the aim was to compete with [...]

Portugal’s Minister of the Economy and Territorial Cohesion, Manuel Castro Almeida, has admitted that the government’s target for growth of over 2% in 2025 might be difficult because of the 15% [...]

Portugal’s overseas surplus fell by €258 million to €2.2Bn to June according to data from the Bank of Portugal which blames a growth in imports in the first half period. It was down by €1.9Bn in [...]

The economic crisis in France and Germany, and the introduction of tariffs in the US, is forcing Portuguese companies to explore markets in Scandinavia. Companies are seeing growth potential in [...]

Portuguese exports to the United States fell 39.4% in June, a month before a 15% trade tariff slapped on the European Union came into effect. But on the other hand, US investment in Portugal has [...]

Portuguese exports of goods fell 1.3% while imports grew 6.4% in 2Q, 2025. This is according to a back-of-the-envelope calculation published on Tuesday by the National Statistics Institute. (INE) [...]

In 2024, exports from Portugal to Germany increased by 17.9% to €9.76Bn despite the slowdown in the German economy. And with uncertainties in Europe and a continued trend to nearshore, that can [...]

In a rush to beat the introduction of “reciprocal” tariffs imposed by the White House, US orders from Portugal offset an overall drop in exports in the first quarter of this year. [...]

A study from Bruegel has compared the effects of US tariffs on employment at a regional level in the European Union and suggests that the impact in the North of Portugal and the Algarve regions [...]