{"id":392340,"date":"2026-04-10T23:04:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T23:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/392340\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T23:04:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T23:04:28","slug":"eu-trade-in-services-supply-worth-e5-933-billion-in-2023-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/392340\/","title":{"rendered":"EU trade in services supply worth \u20ac5 933 billion in 2023 &#8211; News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">In 2023, the trade of the <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:EU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EU<\/a>\u2019s international supply of services was worth \u20ac5 933 billion. EU countries <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Export\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">exported<\/a> \u20ac3 269 billion worth of supply services to <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Extra-EU_and_intra-EU\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">countries outside of the EU<\/a>, while <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Import\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">imports<\/a> from countries outside the EU stood at \u20ac2 664 billion, marking a positive <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Glossary:Trade_balance\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">balance<\/a> of \u20ac605 billion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Looking at the 4 different modes of supply, commercial presence registered by far the highest surplus worth \u20ac469 billion accounting for 77.5% of the total surplus, ahead of cross border supply (\u20ac65 billion; 10.7%), presence of natural persons (\u20ac40 million; 6.6%) and consumption abroad (\u20ac35 billion; 5.8%).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">This information comes from <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/web\/international-trade-in-services\/database\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">data on EU trade in services<\/a> including the first ever official data on supply of services via commercial presence (Mode 3), published by Eurostat today. This article presents only a handful of findings from the more detailed <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Services_trade_statistics_by_modes_of_supply\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Statistics Explained article<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/documents\/d\/products-eurostat-news\/picture1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"EU international supply of services, 2023. Bar chart - Click below to see full dataset.\" data-fileentryid=\"23497889\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Picture1.jpg\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-align-center ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/view\/ext_ser_mos__custom_20791139\/default\/table\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ext_ser_mos<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Commercial presence: USA, UK and Switzerland leading trade partners<\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Regarding commercial presence, EU\u2019s leading trade partners for international supply of services were the United States (\u20ac486 billion; 27.1% of extra-EU exports) and the United Kingdom (\u20ac268 billion; 15.0%), ahead of Switzerland (\u20ac215 billion; 12.0%).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/documents\/d\/products-eurostat-news\/int_supply_in_services_23_visual_02_1920x1080_v1-100-1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"EU's top 10 partners for supply\/acquisition of services via commercial presence, 2023. Bar chart - Click below to see full dataset.\" data-fileentryid=\"23497946\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/INT_Supply_In_Services_23_Visual_02_1920x1080_V1-100.jpg\" width=\"700\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-align-center ecl-u-type-paragraph\">Source dataset: <a class=\"ecl-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/databrowser\/bookmark\/11fecaeb-f0a0-4af6-9853-c9f126246e37?lang=en&amp;createdAt=2026-04-01T11:08:46Z\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ext_ser_mos<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ecl-u-type-paragraph\">The United States was also the origin of most services imported into the EU from non-EU countries via commercial presence (\u20ac564 billion; 42.6% of imports), followed by the United Kingdom (\u20ac218 billion; 16.4%) and Switzerland (\u20ac114 billion; 8.6%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2023, the trade of the EU\u2019s international supply of services was worth \u20ac5 933 billion. 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