Finland Balance of Trade

Last Release

Aug 31, 2025

Actual

-690

Units In

EUR Million

1,305

Frequency

Monthly

Next Release

Nov 05, 2025

Time to Release

26 Days 18 Hours

Highest	Lowest	Average	Date Range	Source
1,749.6 Nov 2002	-1,255 Jul 2022	155.43 EUR Million	1975-2025	Statistics Finland

International trade makes a third of Finland’s GDP. Finnish principal exports are: telecommunications equipment, passenger cars and forestry products and paper and paperboard. Finnish principal imports are food stuffs, petroleum and petroleum products, chemicals, transport equipment, iron and steel, machinery, textile yarn and fabrics and grains. European Union makes 55 percent of the total trade. The largest trade flows are with Germany, Russia, Sweden, China and U.S.

Latest Updates

Finland's trade deficit increased to EUR 0.7 billion in August 2025, up from EUR 0.5 billion in the same month last year, according to preliminary estimates. Exports fell 7.1% yoy to a 30-month low of EUR 5.2 billion, weighed down by a sharp decline in shipments to non-EU countries (-11.4%), while exports to the EU also dropped by 4.0%. Among key trading partners, exports fell significantly to the United States (-40.5%), China (-29.4%), Estonia (-28.5%), Sweden (-7.2%), and Germany (-4.4%). Meanwhile, imports declined 2.9% to a three-month low of EUR 5.9 billion, mainly due to reduced purchases from non-EU countries (-6.9%), while imports from the EU edged up slightly by 0.1%. The steepest import declines came from China (-21.3%), the United States (-16.1%), the Netherlands (-13.6%), Norway (-7.3%), and Germany (-3.7%). For the first eight months of the year, Finland posted a trade surplus of EUR 0.3 billion, swinging from a deficit of EUR 2.2 billion in the same period last year.