Portugal’s exports of goods increased by 7.4 percent year-on-year in the second quarter, totalling 13 billion euros (US$14.3 billion), Statistics Portugal announced on Monday.

Exports went up in June by 9 percent compared to a year earlier, “mostly due to the evolution in intra-EU [European Union] trade,” the statistics bureau explained.

Portugal’s imports rose 5.4 percent in June from the same month last year.

Imports of goods in the April-June period rose 9 percent from the same period last year, official data showed. The value of imports totalled 15.9 billion euros in the second quarter 2015.

According to the official data revealed this week, Portugal’s deficit in the trade balance of goods went up by 400.6 million euros to 2.794 billion euros in this year’s second quarter.