ZAGREB, Nov 23 (Hina) - The average monthly deficit in Croatia's foreign trade in this year's first nine months was approximately USD930 million, with the deficit totalling 8.36 billion at the end of September, one billion or 14.2 per
cent more than in the first nine months of 2005, the Central Bureau of Statistics said on Thursday.
ZAGREB, Nov 23 (Hina) - The average monthly deficit in Croatia's
foreign trade in this year's first nine months was approximately USD930
million, with the deficit totalling 8.36 billion at the end of September, one
billion or 14.2 per cent more than in the first nine months of 2005, the
Central Bureau of Statistics said on Thursday. The export and import
growth rates after this year's first nine months are the same. Both exports
and imports went up 14.2 per cent from the corresponding period last year.
However, this means that imports went up USD1.96 billion while exports
went up 917 million, Croatian Chamber of the Economy analysts said in the
latest "Economic Trends" bulletin.
Croatian exports in this year's first nine months totalled USD7.27
billion while imports were 15.73 billion, which means that the export-import
ratio was a low 46.9 per cent.