Source: Statistics New Zealand
Overseas merchandise trade: March 2025 – 22 April 2025 – Overseas merchandise trade statistics provide information on imports and exports of merchandise goods between New Zealand and other countries.
Correction to the overseas merchandise trade (OMT) series EXP+.S2PT04F for the period June 2016 to February 2025
In this release we have corrected the June 2016 to February 2025 overseas merchandise trade ‘Value of Exports & re-exports – milk powder, butter, and cheese’ monthly, quarterly, and annual Infoshare series EXP+.S2PT04F, to correct an error in data processing .This does not affect the series EXP+.S2U04AF.
Infoshare changes by date has further information about this correction.
Key facts
This release refers to trade in goods only.
In March 2025, compared with March 2024:
- goods exports rose by $1.2 billion (19 percent), to $7.6 billion
- goods imports rose by $723 million (12 percent), to $6.6 billion
- the monthly trade balance was a surplus of $970 million.
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