Bosnia's Serb Republic 9-mo trade gap narrows 26%

Exports fell by an annual 2.3% to 2.7 million marka in the nine months through September, while imports declined 9.6% to 3.6 million marka, the Serb Republic's Institute of Statistics said in a monthly trade report.

The entity's largest trading partner in the January-September period was Serbia with a share of 16.4% of total trade turnover, followed by Italy with 15.2% and Germany with 9.2%.

The Serb Republic is one of two autonomous entities forming Bosnia and Herzegovina. The other one is the Federation.

(1 euro = 1.95583 marka)