TABLE-Slovak Oct foreign trade balance SKK +2.5 bln

...billion in September, the 
Statistics Office said on Wednesday. 
 
FOREIGN TRADE         OCT 07   SEPT 07     OCT 06   JAN-DEC 06 
 (SKK bln) 
 Imports             137.928   120.253    130.980   1,308,143 
 Exports             140.406   122.847    126.531   1,232.887 
 Balance              +2.477    +2.593     -4.449     -75.256 
DYNAMICS OF TRADE 
 (pct y/y change in SKK terms) 
 nominal imports      +5.3       -1.9       N/A         N/A 
 nominal exports     +11.0       +7.2       N/A         N/A 
    NOTE: The market had expected a trade deficit of 0.9 billion 
crowns in October, according to a Reuters survey of analysts 
earlier this month  . 
    The September balance was revised from a previously reported 
surplus of 4.741 billion crowns. 
    In October the Statistics Office revised full-year 2006 
trade deficit to 75.3 billion crowns, from previously reported 
93.1 billion crown gap. 
   
 (Reporting by Peter Laca) 
  
    ($1=22.55 Slovak Crown) 
  Keywords: SLOVAKIA ECONOMY/TRADE  
    

[Reuters/Finance.cz]