South Africa Foreign Merchandise Trade (Monthly Report)
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.
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10 October 2018
Measured at a seasonally adjusted basis, the rand value of imports decreased by -6.5% month-on-month in August 2018.
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10 September 2018
Measured at a seasonally adjusted basis, the rand value of imports increased by 10.2% month-on-month in July 2018.
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08 August 2018
Measured at a seasonally adjusted basis, the rand value of imports increased by 4.8% month-on-month in September 2017.
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09 July 2018
Measured at a seasonally adjusted basis, the rand value of exports increased by 3.0% month-on-month in May 2018.
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06 June 2018
Measured at a seasonally adjusted basis, the rand value of exports decreased by -3.4% month-on-month in April 2018.
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08 May 2018
Over the past five years, exports had declined by an average of 1% per annum in dollar terms, while the equivalent growth rate for imports had amounted to -3.5% p.a.
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12 April 2018
Over the past five years, exports had declined by an average of 1.3% per annum in dollar terms, while the equivalent growth rate for imports had amounted to -3.8% p.a.
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05 March 2018
The latest 12-month merchandise trade deficit amounted to R30.2 billion which was R66 billion less than the previous 12 months’ deficit.
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13 February 2018
Over the past three months, 20 of the 23 export categories showed a positive annualised change in dollar terms.
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15 January 2018
Over the past three months, 9 of the 23 export categories showed a positive annualised change in dollar terms.
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