
French foreign trade deteriorates by 0.7 billion euros compared to the previous quarter
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Data published by Customs this Friday morning shows a deterioration in the French trade balance in the third quarter of 2026, after a clear improvement at the start of the year.
According to data published by Customs this Friday morning, the French trade deficit amounted to 19.9 billion euros for the third quarter of 2026. This is a deterioration of 0.7 billion compared to the previous one. After a clear improvement at the start of the year, French foreign trade is back in the red, penalized by the drop in exports of numerous manufactured products in the automobile, aeronautics, electronics, IT and pharmaceutical sectors.
If exports in the energy sector are increasing, as are those of perfumes and other cosmetics or clothing and leather goods, they only grew by 1.1% over the quarter to reach 164.4 billion euros. However, insufficient to absorb the deficit because imports increased by 1.3% and amounted to 184.4 billion euros.

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