EU Agri-Food Exports Reach 238.2 Billion Euros

The European Union’s agricultural and food exports reached 238.2 billion euros in 2025, up 1.6% from the previous year, even as imports grew faster and narrowed the bloc’s trade balance in the sector, according to official Eurostat data released Wednesday.

The figures show that the E.U. imported 213.5 billion euros worth of agricultural products from countries outside the bloc in 2025, up 9.3% from 2024. That left the European Union with a surplus of 24.7 billion euros, underscoring the sector’s continued importance to the region’s economy despite rising pressure from foreign suppliers.

Over the past decade, agricultural trade has expanded steadily. Between 2015 and 2025, exports rose at an average annual rate of 4.4%, while imports increased at a slightly faster pace of 5% a year. In volume terms, the European Union exported 131 million metric tons of agricultural products in 2025 and imported 154 million metric tons, with total trade volume growing at an average annual rate of 0.9% over the same period.

The United Kingdom remained the European Union’s largest export market for agricultural goods in 2025, accounting for 23.3% of sales outside the bloc, or 55.6 billion euros. The United States was second, with a 12% share and 28.5 billion euros in purchases, followed by Switzerland at 5.7%, or 13.5 billion euros, and China at 4.9%, or 11.6 billion euros.

Trade patterns among the main export destinations changed only slightly from 2024, though shipments to the United States fell by 0.9%. Eurostat linked that decline to tariffs imposed on several agricultural products.

On the import side, Brazil was the European Union’s biggest supplier of agricultural goods, with an 8.5% share worth 18.2 billion euros. The United Kingdom followed with 8%, or 17.1 billion euros, then the United States with 6.2%, or 13.3 billion euros, and China with 5.1%, or 10.9 billion euros.

The bloc’s import mix also shifted modestly from a year earlier. Ukraine’s share of E.U. agricultural imports fell from 6.7% to 5% after temporary trade facilitation measures for farm products expired.

Wine and wine-based products remained one of Europe’s most valuable export categories within agri-food trade, reaching 16.4 billion euros in 2025, down 6% from the previous year, according to WineNews’ analysis of the European Commission’s year-end Monitoring E.U. Agri-Food Trade report.