Trade

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) [...]

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. [...]

The trade war between the European Union and the United States could lead to Portugal’s overseas investment and promotion agency AICEP changing its overseas promotion plan. The agency says it is [...]

US wine importers have stopped taking orders of Portuguese wines because of the uncertainty of reciprocal tariffs threatened by the US government. Paulo Amorim, president of ANCEVE, the national [...]

Total trade in goods and services (exports plus imports) between the UK and Portugal was £11.2Bn in the four quarters to the end of Q3 2024, an increase of 0.7% or £83 million (€100 million) in [...]