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Foreign Trade Gains with the Western Balkans

Business › Foreign Trade ♦ Published: July 16, 2019; 13:30 ♦ (Vindobona)

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Exports worth 1.35 billion euros to the EU accession candidates of the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia) are balanced by imports to Austria worth 1.25 billion euros.

Serbia and Bosnia & Herzegovina are among Austria's most important export partners in the region. / Picture: © Wikimedia Commons / Olahus, cropped [CC BY-SA 3.0]

In 2018, goods worth 1.35 billion euros were exported to the potential EU accession countries of the Western Balkans (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia) (export share: 0.9%).

The import share was 0.8% (1.25 billion euros).

Serbia (-0.1% to EUR 0.67 billion) and Bosnia and Herzegovina (+8.1% to EUR 0.41 billion) were among…