Abstract
The concept of trade, which reveals the competitiveness of countries, and the concept of economic growth, which is encountered in the vitality of the global economy, has been discussed in various contexts with different country groups in the literature. The EU, which is a country group worth investigating due to its characteristic structure, is re-addressed as EU-27 in most studies in the literature, with the leaving of UK from the group. In this context, this study examines the effect of trade deficit or surplus in EU-27 countries on economic growth with a large data set with an econometric approach. As a result of the findings, it is stated that the trade balance has a lagged effect on economic growth.