November 9 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's trade deficit expanded to 4.2 billion levs ($2.5 billion/2.1 billion euro) in the nine months through September from 2.6 billion levs in the same period of 2016, preliminary data from the country’s statistical office, NSI, showed on Thursday.
Exports increased 12.3% on the year, reaching 38.6 billion levs in the January-September period, while imports rose by an annual 15.8% to 42.8 billion levs, the NSI said in a statement.
In September alone, Bulgaria's exports rose 8.0% year-on-year, while imports increased 12.6% on the year.
Details follow (in millions of levs):
| |
Jan-Sept'17 |
Jan-Sept'16 |
Sept'17 |
Sept'16 |
| Exports (FOB) |
38,598.2 |
34,367.9 |
4,502.9 |
4,170.7 |
| Imports (CIF) |
42,833.2 |
36,992.8 |
4,707.0 |
4,180.3 |
| Balance |
-4,235.0 |
-2,624.9 |
-204.1 |
-9.6 |
source:NSI
(1 euro=1.95583 levs)