EU internal trade: share of intra-EU goods imports 2023, by member state

Trade within the European Union is defined by the European Single Market, a union-wide trade area which ensures the free movement of goods, services, capital, and labor between EU member states. Over the period since 2002, Germany and France have been the two largest importers of goods from other member states, which is perhaps unsurprising, as they are by far the two largest economies and populations in the EU. As of 2023, Germany imports 22.2 percent of the goods traded within the EU, while France imported 11.7 percent. These two countries have consistently ran intra-EU goods deficits in the past few years, meaning that they import more from other EU countries than they export to them.