Eurozone trade surplus 22.3 billion euros last year.

<P> Eurostat to preliminary results announced on the 17th, said the euro zone in 2009 to achieve a trade surplus throughout the year. .</ P> <P> results show that the full year 2009, a 16-nation euro area's external trade surplus of 22.3 billion euros to achieve, but the 27-nation EU's external trade deficit last year's 105.5 billion euros. .The year 2008, the euro zone countries and the EU 16, 27 are foreign trade deficit in foreign trade. .</ P> <P> Statistics also show that compared with 2008, 2009, the vast majority of EU-27 import and export volume of major trading partners have different degrees of decline, which in Russia, Brazil, Turkey and other countries .biggest drop in import and export, but exports to China grew by 2%. .</ P> <P> from the country perspective, the EU Member States, Germany, the Netherlands, Ireland and Belgium's foreign trade surplus up, while the deficit up to turn the United Kingdom, France, Spain and Greece. .</ P>.