The Foreign Merchandise Trade report is a monthly 6-page publication that provides some detail on the latest monthly foreign trade numbers and longer term trends. Detail on imports and exports are given at the HS 4-digit level (some 23 categories). Figures are seasonally adjusted and are also converted into dollar values. A breakdown is also provided on the most important regional origins of imports and destinations of exports.
12 April 2021
Over the past three months, 17 of the 23 export categories showed a positive annualised change in dollar terms.
05 March 2021
Measured at a seasonally adjusted basis, the rand value of imports decreased by 4.9% month-on-month in January 2021.
05 February 2021
Measured at a seasonally adjusted basis, the rand value of imports increased by 11.7% month-on-month in December 2020.
12 January 2021
Measured at a seasonally adjusted basis, the rand value of imports decreased by 0.6% month-on-month in November 2020.
10 November 2020
Measured at a seasonally adjusted basis, the rand value of imports increased by 10.2% month-on-month in September 2020.
22 October 2020
Measured at a seasonally adjusted basis, the rand value of imports increased by 6.4% month-on-month in August 2020.
08 September 2020
Measured at a seasonally adjusted basis, the rand value of imports increased by 6.6% month-on-month in July 2020.
06 August 2020
Measured at a 3-months annualised basis, imports were 53.1% lower, while import growth over the past 12 months amounted to -6.9%.
09 July 2020
Measured at a seasonally adjusted basis, the rand value of imports decreased by 7.2% month-on-month in May 2020.
05 June 2020
Measured at a seasonally adjusted basis, the rand value of imports decreased by only 3.8% month-on-month in April 2020.
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