Overseas Merchandise Trade: March 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.

Visit our website to read this information release:

• Overseas merchandise trade: March 2025: https://www.stats.govt.nz/information-releases/overseas-merchandise-trade-march-2025/
• Overseas merchandise trade datasets: https://www.stats.govt.nz/large-datasets/csv-files-for-download/overseas-merchandise-trade-datasets/

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