The country’s total external trade in goods in April 2020, which amounted to USD 6.07 billion, declined at a faster rate of 59.8 percent than its previous month’s annual drop of 25.6 percent. Of the total external trade, more than half (54.1%) were imported goods and the rest were exported goods.

The country’s total external trade in goods in February 2020 amounted to USD12.46 billion, a decline of 5.9 percent from the USD13.24 billion external trade in the same month of the previous year. Of the total external trade, USD5.40 billion (43.4%) were exported goods and USD7.06 billion (56.6%) were imported goods. (Figure 1)

The country’s total external trade in goods in December 2019 amounted to USD13.96 billion which represents an increase of 2.4 percent from the USD13.63 billion external trade in the same month of the previous year. Of the total external trade, USD5.74 billion (41.1%) were exported goods and USD8.22 billion (58.9%) were imported goods.