EU spent 261m euros on fireworks for New Year 2019

European Union member states imported 110 thousand tonnes of pyrotechnics for New Year's fireworks in 2017, corresponding to a total of 261m euros.

Almost all imports, exactly 98 percent, have been made from China, the European Statistical Administration Eurostat reported today. Of total imports, more than three quarters (77 percent) went to four member states.

For one thing, Germany is 40 thousand tons (36 percent), followed by the Netherlands at 24 thousand tons (22 percent), Poland at 11 thousand tonnes (10 percent), and Great Britain at 10,000 tons (9 percent), the Kosovas Parris broadcast. /Periscopi