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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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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11 December 2017
The latest 12-month merchandise trade deficit amounted to R36.5 billion which was R72 billion less than the previous 12 months’ deficit.Subscribers to EasyData can download the complete report in PDF format on www.easydata.co.za..
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06 November 2017
Over the past five years, exports had declined by an average of 3.6% per annum, in dollar terms, while the equivalent growth rate for imports had amounted to -5.1% p.a.
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