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.
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.
11 May 2020
Measured at a seasonally adjusted basis, the rand value of imports decreased by 2.2% month-on-month in March 2020.
14 April 2020
Measured at a seasonally adjusted basis, the rand value of imports decreased by 0.1% month-on-month in February 2020.
05 March 2020
Measured at a seasonally adjusted basis, the rand value of imports increased by 4.8% month-on-month in January 2020.
17 January 2020
Measured at a seasonally adjusted basis, the rand value of imports decreased by 4.5% month-on-month in November 2019.
17 December 2019
Measured at a seasonally adjusted basis, the rand value of imports increased by 11.6% month-on-month in October 2019.
06 November 2019
Measured at a seasonally adjusted basis, the rand value of exports decreased by 6.6% month-on-month in September 2019.
03 October 2019
Measured at a seasonally adjusted basis, the rand value of exports increased by 1.6% month-on-month in August 2019.
08 August 2019
Over the past three months, 10 of the 23 export categories showed a positive annualised change in dollar terms.
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