Weighed down by its trade deficit, France wants to boost its exports. With a range of aid and measures, the government is betting on a target of 200,000 exporting companies by 2030.
The figures for the year 2023 expected on Wednesday should show a deficit of around 100 billion euros. This will be the second highest deficit in history since 2022 and the 164 billion recorded then, against a backdrop of explosion in the prices of imported energy after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. For the moment, the latter prefer to see the glass half full on the foreign trade front, in chronic deficit for more than twenty years.