TABLE-Slovak Oct foreign trade gap SKK 4.98 bln

    Slovakia's foreign trade balance showed a 
deficit of 4.98 billion crowns ($185.7 million) in October, 
compared with a revised gap of 9.87 billion crowns in September, 
the Statistics Office said on Tuesday. 
 
FOREIGN TRADE         OCT 06   SEPT 06    OCT 05    JAN-DEC 05 
 (SKK bln) 
 Imports             128.257   124.393   103.493    1,070.893 
 Exports             123.278   114.519    96.732      994.571 
 Balance              -4.979    -9.874    -6.761      -76.322 
DYNAMICS OF TRADE  
 (pct y/y change in SKK terms) 
 nominal imports      23.9       29.9      16.7          13.9 
 nominal exports      27.4       23.0      14.8          11.6 
 
   NOTE: The market had expected a trade deficit of 4.1 billion 
crowns in October, according to a Reuters survey of analysts 
earlier this month  . 
    The September balance was revised from a previously reported 
shortfall of 9.46 billion crowns. 
 
 (Reporting by Martin Santa in Bratislava) 
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 ($1=26.82 Slovak Crown) 
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