{"id":199424,"date":"2018-08-16T20:05:36","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T22:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=199424"},"modified":"2018-08-17T20:57:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T22:57:41","slug":"tunisias-exports-imports-widen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/tunisias-exports-imports-widen\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia\u2019s exports, imports widen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tunis \u2013 Exports from Tunisia climbed 5.9% in volume year-on-year through July, with imports going up 2.1%, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tap.info.tn\/fr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP)<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>quoted the National Statistics Institute (INS) as saying this Thursday (16). Average export price was up 16.4%, while average import price increased by 18.3%.<\/p>\n<p>In current numbers, exports reached TND 23.58 billion (USD 8.43 billion) through July 2018, up 23.3%, and imports stood at TND 33.53 billion (USD 12 billion), up 20.8%.<\/p>\n<p>Shipped volume was up 63.7% through July for agricultural and food products (<em>the photo shows wheat being harvested in Tunisia<\/em>), down 10.3% for ores, phosphates and their products, and down 15% for the energy industry.<\/p>\n<p>The energy category includes oil, gas and their products. Average price for these items climbed 28.7% for exports, and 8.3% for imports. Other industries saw a 15.6% hike in average export prices and a 19.4% hike in average import prices.<\/p>\n<p>Volume-wise, fuel and lubricant imports were up 27.2%; agricultural and food product imports slid 4.9%; and ores, phosphates and their products dropped 9.2%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-199422\">Fethi Belaid\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country shipped USD 8.43 billion worth of goods abroad from January to July and purchased the equivalent of USD 12 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":199422,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[27711,2188,2189,573,28491,273],"class_list":{"0":"post-199424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-balanca-comercial-en","9":"tag-export","10":"tag-import","11":"tag-trade-balance","12":"tag-tunisia-en-3","13":"tag-tunisia"},"wps_subtitle":"The country shipped USD 8.43 billion worth of goods abroad from January to July and purchased the equivalent of USD 12 billion. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}