Euro zone trade surplus shrinks in 2018 - Eurostat
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The euro zone's trade surplus in goods with the rest of the world shrank last year because of higher imports, data from the European Union's statistics office Eurostat showed on Friday.Eurostat said the unadjusted trade surplus of the 19-country currency bloc amounted to 194.2 billion euros (£171.03 billion) in 2018, down from 234.9 billion euros in 2017.Euro zone imports increased last year by 6.2 percent, while exports rose only 3.7 percent compared to 2017.In December..