March 14 (Reuters) - Slovakia's foreign trade balance swung
to a surplus of 3.98 billion crowns ($154 million) in January,
compared with a...
...revised gap of 12.31 billion crowns in December,
the Statistics Office said on Wednesday.
FOREIGN TRADE JAN 07 DEC 06 JAN 06 JAN-DEC 06
(SKK bln)
Imports 106.977 111.276 89.464 1,330.986
Exports 110.959 98.969 81.274 1,239.359
Balance +3.982 -12.306 -8.191 -91.627
DYNAMICS OF TRADE
(pct y/y change in SKK terms)
nominal imports 19.6 1.9 31.0 24.3
nominal exports 36.5 19.3 22.3 24.6
NOTE: The market had expected a trade deficit of 2.0 billion
crowns in January according to a Reuters survey of analysts
earlier this month .
The December balance was revised from a previously reported
shortfall of 12.48 billion crowns.
(Reporting by Martin Santa in Bratislava)
($1=25.85 Slovak Crown)
Keywords: SLOVAKIA ECONOMY/TRADE