November 12 (SeeNews) - Bulgaria's trade gap widened to 6.36 billion levs ($3.47 billion/3.02 billion euro) in the first nine months of the year, from 2.57 billion levs in the same period of 2017, the country’s statistical office, NSI, said on Monday, quoting preliminary data.
Exports declined 1.5% on the year, reaching 39.79 billion levs in the January-September period, while imports rose by an annual 7.5% to 46.15 billion levs, NSI said in a statement.
In September alone, Bulgaria's exports fell 1.2% year-on-year to 4.71 billion levs, while imports rose 9.5% to 5.16 billion levs.
Details follow (in millions of levs):
|
Jan-Sept 2018 |
Jan-Sept 2017 |
Sept 2018 |
Sept 2017 |
Exports (FOB) |
39,795.2 |
40,381.4 |
4,710.1 |
4,768.4 |
Imports (CIF) |
46,154.3 |
42,948.3 |
5,162.7 |
4,716.9 |
Balance |
-6,359.1 |
-2,566.9 |
-452.6 |
51.5 |
source: NSI
(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)