Finance Minister Joaquim Miranda Sarmento's 9 June visit to Porto de Sines unveiled a standalone Alfândega for the country's biggest maritime gateway — 33 staff, two dedicated gabinetes and a 1 January 2027 start lift Sines out of its delegação status under Setúbal.
INE's April 2026 international trade release lifts Portuguese exports +15.5% YoY — the strongest pace since July 2024 — with fuels at +32%, Spain at +11.1%, France at +12.5% and Germany at +12%, narrowing the bilateral deficit by €149M.
The MSC's 2026 Fishing for the Future report makes the Iberian sardine its cover rebuild case study: adult population off the Portuguese-Spanish Atlantic has quadrupled since the 2015 trough, validating the joint Portugal-Spain management plan.
Twenty-seven Portuguese startups landed at Web Summit Rio on Monday for the 8–11 June run, with €20 million in cumulative backing and 269 employees spread across Lisboa, Funchal, Aveiro and Mirandela — Startup Portugal and Unicorn Factory Lisboa anchor the fourth-consecutive Brazil push.
Portuguese wines hold roughly 18% of the Brazilian import market, third behind Chile and Argentina. The EU-Mercosur tariff schedule — 27% to 24% in May 2026 and to zero by 2034 — is forecast to push Portugal to 22% and past Argentina, with Cartuxa expecting 15% Brazil revenue growth.
INE's 1 June destaque puts April's Volume de Negócios no Comércio at +4.3% year-on-year, a 1.4-point step-down from March. Retail reads 4.9%, wholesale 1.5%, and motor-vehicle trade accelerates to 12.2%.
Three weeks after the INE Q1 2026 foreign-trade destaque put the goods deficit at €8.417 billion with exports down 6.4% and imports up 2.6%, the calculus that the comércio externo line will run into during the April and May releases looks materially...
