EU-Mexico bilateral trade in goods increased by 330% over the last 25 years.

Omissions

• No independent source found states the exact figure 330% verbatim; the closest official-adjacent statement is that bilateral trade in goods increased by 'more than 300%' during the term of the original EU-Mexico agreement, which is consistent with but not identical to 330%.
• The exact percentage depends on the base year chosen (2000 vs 2001 vs 2002); the full Eurostat time series for the 25-year span was not directly retrieved in this verification.
• The Council of the EU infographic cites a shorter window (+75% over the last decade, to over €86 billion in 2025), which is compatible with a larger cumulative increase over 25 years.
• The claim was verified against the Commission's own speech text (europa.eu newsroom PDF), but that same-session material was not used as evidence of the factual content.
• A 2000 European Commission report (archived at aei.pitt.edu) anchors the base: EU exports to Mexico reached €10.4 billion in 1999, having doubled since 1995.

Sources

• PrimaryEuropean Commission — EU trade relations with Mexico (policy.trade.ec.europa.eu)The EU continues to register a trade surplus with Mexico. However, the surplus slightly decreased from €24 billion in 2024 to €19.1 billion in 2025.
• PrimaryEuropean Commission report on EU-Mexico relations, 2000 (archived at Archive of European Integration, Univ. of Pittsburgh)Between 1995 and 1999 the value of EU exports to Mexico more than doubled, passing from 4.5 billion ECU to 10.4 billion euro.
• SecondaryFriedrich Naumann Foundation for Freedom (freiheit.org)During the term of the original agreement, bilateral trade in goods increased by more than 300%, with total trade volume exceeding $94.5 billion
• SecondaryCouncil of the European Union — EU-Mexico trade: facts and figuresIn 2025 EU-Mexico trade was valued at over €86 billion: roughly €53 billion in exports and almost €34 billion in imports. ... EU-Mexico trade grew by over 75% in the last decade, with exports growing slightly more rapidly, at 92%