Eurozone trade surplus stands at 2.9 bln euros in September

Eurozone trade surplus stands at 2.9 bln euros in September

The eurozone trade surplus stood at 2.9 billion euros (about 3.9 billion U.S. dollars) in September, the European Union's (EU) statistics bureau Eurostat said on Tuesday.

The seasonally adjusted exports and imports for the 17-member single currency zone fell by 1.0 percent and by 3.2 percent respectively in September compared with the previous month, the bureau said in a report on its website.

The eurozone registered a trade deficit of 4.4 billion euros in August 2011 and 6.2 billion in a year before that.

For the wider 27-nation EU, trade balance for September 2011 recorded a deficit of 10.5 billion euro, compared with a deficit of 13.9 billion euros in the same month of 2010. Trade deficit stood at 17.8 billion euro in August.

Seasonally adjusted exports and imports of the EU fell by 0.7 percent and 3.4 percent respectively in September from the previous month.

Editor: Yang Lina

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BRUSSELS, Nov. 15 (Xinhua)