September’s exports up 3.4 percent to $19.4 billion

 

 

BANGKOK: -- Exports for the month of September jumped 3.4 percent to US$19.4 billion, representing the highest in two years and the second monthly growth in a row, said Ms Pimchanok Wornkhorporn, deputy director of the Office of Trade Policy and Strategy, on Wednesday.

 

Imports in the same month increased 5.6 percent to US$16.9 billion, resulting in a trade surplus of $2.5 billion.

 

Overall, exports for the first nine months of the year amounted to $160 billion, down 0.7 percent compared to the same period last year.

 

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9 hours ago, webfact said:

Exports for the month of September jumped 3.4 percent to US$19.4 billion, representing the highest in two years and the second monthly growth in a row,

Send the trumpeters to the parapets and announce it to the world. Ah government numbers thrown out to the masses to show how well the system works. Oh joy.