Balance of payments of the Republic of Lithuania: July 2026

current account balance (CAB) decreased significantly (fivefold) in July compared with June, but remained in surplus, amounting to €88.0 million. The main drivers of this change were the decrease in the secondary income balance surplus and the increase in the primary income balance deficit (see Chart 1). The secondary income balance surplus decreased from €346.5 million to €44.1 million. The primary income balance deficit increased 1.7- fold to €347.0 million. With exports and imports of goods decreasing by 6.6% and 5.2%, respectively, the foreign trade balance deficit increased by 1.7% to €707.0 million. As exports of services were increasing faster than imports (by 5.8% and 1.0%, respectively), the services balance surplus increased by 11.4% to €1.1 billion;

the negative net financial account investment flow (€684.8 million) was driven by negative net direct investment (€897.1 million) and portfolio investment (€300.6 million) flows, as well as a decrease in official reserve assets (€54.2 million), which were not offset by the positive net other investment flow (€565.2 million) (see Chart 2).

Chart 1. CAB and its composite flows

Chart 2. Net financial account investment flows

Detailed data on the balance of payments for July is available on Lietuvos bankas’ website (External statistics). 

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