Slovakia’s foreign trade in 2013 posted a surplus of €4.429 billion, making it the highest ever in the country’s history, the Slovak Statistics Office informed on Friday. Overall, Slovak exports last year reached €64.466 billion; an increase of 3.7 percent year-on-year.
At the same time, total imports to Slovakia went up by 2.5 percent to €60.036 billion. Slovakia had the highest foreign-trade surpluses with Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic, Austria, UK, and France. The highest deficits on the other hand were posted in trade with South Korea, Russia, China, and Japan.
Lucia Pazičová