France's trade deficit starts to rise again in January. After three months of successive improvements, Customs has just announced a deterioration of 0.5 billion euros bringing the deficit to 6.9 billion euros.

This result is linked to a double effect of a drop in exports and an increase in imports. More information to come….. More information about the French trade deficit is available at: http://www.customs.gov.uk/trade-deficit-and-exports.