Trade

Exports of goods fell 1.4% and imports increased 4.7% to April in like-for-like terms from January to April this year increasing Portugal’s trade deficit by €2.1Bn to €11.4Bn according to [...]

Exports and imports of goods increased in April, with year-on-year increases of 15.5% and 8.9%, respectively, according to INE data. The trade deficit in goods decreased, now standing at €2,883 [...]

Portugal’s Confederation of Trade and Services of Portugal (CCP) has a new president. He is Gustavo Paulo Duarte and he took the helm on Wednesday. (May 13) Mr. Duarte will replace João Vieira [...]

Portugal’s Association of Manufacturers for the Automotive Industry (AFIA) has admitted that US tariffs on the sector could put pressure on manufacturers’ order books. And a representative of the [...]

The fifth edition of the Transatlantic Business Summit will take place on January 30 at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon. Organised by the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham), this [...]

After 25 years of talks, the EU signed the EU-Mercosur trade deal on Saturday, creating a 700 million-person free-trade area. Ratification is still pending, however, with the European Parliament [...]

Portugal’s minister of the Economy, Castro Almeida said that Portugal had “a great variety of business opportunities” and could be an “important centre of investment” and a platform for [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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) [...]