ZAGREB, Dec 9 (Hina) - Croatia's foreign trade deficit in this year's first ten months amounted to US$4.75 million, the Central Bureau of Statistics said in a statement on Tuesday.
ZAGREB, Dec 9 (Hina) - Croatia's foreign trade deficit in this
year's first ten months amounted to US$4.75 million, the Central
Bureau of Statistics said in a statement on Tuesday. #L#
In the said period, Croatia exported US$4.02 billion in goods to
foreign markets, which is 2.3 percent more than in the same period
the year before. At the same time Croatia's export increased by 14.4
percent, reaching US$8.77 billion.
The amount of exports made up for only 45.8 percent of imports in
this year's first ten months.
Viewing the amount of Croatia's deficit expressed in US dollars,
one should consider the effects of changes to the currency exchange
rates. The average exchange rate of the US dollar expressed in kuna
in the first ten months (in exports) was 5.3 percent lower than in
the same period the year before.
The amount of Croatia's export expressed in kuna in the first ten
months amounted to 31.9 billion kuna, which is 2.7 percent less than
in 2001. In the same period Croatia imported 69.47 billion kuna in
goods (8.3 percent more). According to this, Croatia's foreign
trade deficit amounted to close to 37.57 billion kuna.
EUR1 = 7.45 kuna
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