France: the trade deficit deteriorates further to 7.5 billion euros in October

2021-12-07T08:17:00.420Z

Rising commodity prices weighed on imports. France's trade deficit worsened again to 7.5 billion euros in October, weighed down by commodity prices, Customs announced on Tuesday. The balance of imports over exports widened more than in the previous month, September, which posted a deficit of 7.1 billion euros (revised figure). It is also worse than the figures for August and July.