January 13 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's trade deficit fell to 2.57 billion levs ($1.46 billion/1.31 billion euro) in the first eleven months of last year, from 6.18 billion levs in the same period of 2018, the country's statistical office said on Monday.
Exports (FOB) increased 3.7% year-on-year in the period under review, reaching 53.7 billion levs, while imports (CIF) fell 2.9% to 56.3 billion levs, NSI said in a statement.
In November alone, Bulgaria's exports decreased by 0.5% on the year to 5.05 billion levs, while imports fell by 8.9% to 5.16 billion levs.
Details follow (in millions of levs):
|
Jan-Nov 2019 |
Jan-Nov 2018 |
Nov 2019 |
Nov 2018 |
Exports (FOB) |
53758.2 |
51818.5 |
5050.2 |
5077.7 |
Imports (CIF) |
56324.9 |
57998.0 |
5163.6 |
5670.5 |
Balance |
-2566.7 |
-6179.5 |
-113.4 |
-592.8 |
source: NSI
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)