{"id":443582,"date":"2026-02-24T20:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/443582\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T20:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T20:51:16","slug":"eu-imported-e3-5-trillion-worth-of-services-in-2024-news-articles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/443582\/","title":{"rendered":"EU imported \u20ac3.5 trillion worth of services in 2024 – News articles"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 2024, EU<\/a> countries imported \u20ac3 471 billion worth of services from non-EU countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This information comes from official statistics on the international trade in services<\/a> by modes of supply (MOS) published by Eurostat today.<\/p>\n

Most of the services (58.9%; \u20ac2 044 billion) were imported through a commercial presence within the reporting country (mode 3). Cross-border supply (mode 1) accounted for 31.3% of imports (\u20ac1 087 billion), consumption abroad (mode 2) for 6.6% (\u20ac 229 billion) and the presence of natural persons (mode 4) for 3.2% (\u20ac111 billion).\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Imports<\/a><\/p>\n

Source dataset: ext_ser_mos<\/a><\/p>\n

In 22 EU countries, the majority of service imports came through a commercial presence within their territory (mode 3). The highest shares of imports via commercial presence were in Bulgaria (81.7%), Hungary (78.1%) and Spain (74.5%).\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cross-border supply (mode 1) was the dominant mode in Greece, accounting for 68.8% of imports. Cyprus (43.8%), Sweden (37.7%) and Denmark (37.4%) also reported high shares.<\/p>\n

Consumption abroad (mode 2) played a significant role in Denmark, where it accounted for 22.3% of imports. France (12.1%), Lithuania (10.8%), Croatia (10.4%) and Italy (10.3%) also recorded notable shares. For other EU countries, it accounted for less than 10% of the total imports.<\/p>\n

The presence of natural persons (mode 4) was most pronounced in Cyprus, and Denmark, each with a 7.3% share, and in Belgium (5.4%).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In 2024, EU countries imported \u20ac3 471 billion worth of services from non-EU countries.\u00a0 This information comes from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443583,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,4535,1294,1295,19626,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-443582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-data-driven-news","tag-economy","tag-international-trade","tag-its","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443582\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}