It was to be expected, but the disappointment and concerns are no less great.
Over the first six months of the year, the French trade deficit on goods widened to 71 billion euros, according to figures released Friday by customs.
An unprecedented amount that sweeps away the peak - already without recent measure - of 51 billion euros recorded in the previous half.
A “very sensitive”
and not really
“exciting”
degradation ,
conceded in a half-word the new Minister Delegate for Foreign Trade, Olivier Becht.
Especially since, in the month of June alone, the trade deficit plunged by 13.3 billion euros, a new monthly record.
This suggests an intensification of the difficulties in the coming months.
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