Intra EU share of EU-27 trade in goods, services and foreign direct investments remains more than 50% in 2010

The Internal Market share of total EU-27 trade in goods was 63.7% in 2010. Between 2005 and 2010, this share fell by 2.4 percentage points. In 2010, intra EU-27 trade in services accounted for 56.1% of all exported services and 58.4% of imports, which represented falls in the intra EU share of 2.0 and 1.6 percentage points respectively between 2005 and 2010. The EU Member States made more outward Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) in other Member States than outside the EU-27 in 2010 – 56.1% of total EU 27 outward FDI. Internal Market shares of total outward and inward FDI suffered significant falls in 2009 during the global financial crisis. Both shares made recoveries in 2010, in particular inward FDI.

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