TABLE-Slovak Sept foreign trade surplus SKK 4.7 bln

...billion in August, the 
Statistics Office said on Friday. 
 
FOREIGN TRADE        SEPT 07    AUG 07    SEPT 06   JAN-DEC 06 
 (SKK bln) 
 Imports             118.125   113.146    122.541   1,308,143 
 Exports             122.867   107.990    114.544   1,232.887 
 Balance              +4.741    -5.157     -7.997     -75.256 
DYNAMICS OF TRADE 
 (pct y/y change in SKK terms) 
 nominal imports      -3.6       +3.7       N/A         N/A 
 nominal exports      +7.3       +2.4       N/A         N/A 
    NOTE: The market had expected a trade deficit of 3.5 billion 
crowns in September, according to a Reuters survey of analysts 
earlier this month  . 
    The August balance was revised from a previously reported 
deficit of 7.565 billion crowns.  
    The Statistics Office revised full-year 2006 trade deficit 
to 75.3 billion crowns, from previously reported 93.1 billion 
crown gap in October. 
   
  (Reporting Peter Laca and Martin Santa) 
  
 ($1=22.53 Slovak Crown) 
  Keywords: SLOVAKIA ECONOMY/TRADE  
    

[Reuters/Finance.cz]