Spain triggers its purchase of gas abroad (including Russia) and its trade deficit grows 492% until June

The difference between what Spain exports abroad and what it imports from other countries has increased sixfold in the first half of the year, in which the

reached

,

than the registered deficit in the same period of the previous year, 5,397.3 million, due to the increase in the

from other countries, including

.

This has been verified by the foreign trade data released this Thursday by the

according to which the

(the part of what we buy that we can cover with what we sell)

, 10.9 points less than that registered between January and June 2021.

The main reason why the hole in our trade relations has widened so much is due to the

.

In fact, imports of energy products

(quantity of energy imported), while in total value -euros- they reached

27.8% more than in the same period of the previous year, due to the rise in prices.

The energy deficit rose to 25,893.9 million euros.

In general,

in the first six months of the year, to 222,882.2 million euros, (an increase due to the fact that we bought 17.7% more since we bought it 19, 5% more expensive);

while

to 190,919.0 million euros.

In volume, the amount of goods and services sold abroad only increased by 6.6% year-on-year, but prices grew by 17.1%.

According to the latest statistics from

-a non-profit public law corporation, supervised by the Ministry for Ecological Transition-,

abroad, with an

in the purchase of this fuel in the first semester.

Specifically, and despite the desire of the entire continent to reduce its

,

amounted to

in June, a level that had not been recorded in any month of the entire series -which starts in 2004- and that is almost double what was imported in May and

In the

gas purchases from

were 24,016 gigawatt hours this year,

than what was purchased in the same period of the previous year (21.4 gigawatts). In total, Spain it

bought

hours of gas between January and June, with which

were from the country led by Vladimir

.

Deficit also in non-energy trade

In addition to the fact that the deficit registered in the energy field grew considerably, in the first half of the year there was also a

, that is, in the goods and services of another type that we buy and sell abroad.

Thus, compared to last year in which we had recorded a surplus because

this year the non-energy balance showed a

In 2021, in the same period, there was a surplus of 4,700.2 million euros.

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