External trade

Technical footwear is emerging as a key driver of Portugal’s footwear exports. This has helped the industry to maintain growth in 2025, despite a downturn affecting several major producing [...]

Portugal’s exports and not consumer spending was what most drove the economy on the whole in 2025. According to data from the National Statistics Institute (INE) released on Friday, the [...]

Portuguese companies believe that they will see exports rise 5.1% on average in 2026, expecting that the rate of overseas sales of goods will improve on 2025 despite international uncertainty and [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]