{"id":210524,"date":"2019-03-08T19:17:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T22:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=210524"},"modified":"2019-06-30T16:54:43","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T19:54:43","slug":"tunisia-trade-deficit-widens-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/tunisia-trade-deficit-widens-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia trade deficit widens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tunis \u2013 Tunisia ran a TND 2.46 billion (USD 810.5 million) trade deficit in January and February, up 11% from a year ago, as per numbers from its National Statistics Institute made public this Friday (8) by news agency\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tap.info.tn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>TAP<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The country had relevant deficits in trade with China, Turkey, Italy, Algeria and Russia, but posted surpluses with France, Libya and Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>Exports from Tunisia amounted to TND 7.72 billion (2.54 billion), up 16.7%. foreign sales went up for phosphate and its products, fossil fuels, the process industry, mechanical and electrical industries, and textiles, clothing and others.<\/p>\n<p>Imports to Tunisia reached TND 10.18 billion (USD 3.35 billion), up 15.3%. Imports went up for capital goods, raw materials, semi-finished goods and fuels.<\/p>\n<p>The European Union took in 74.6% of total exports from Tunisia and accounted for 52.4% of Tunisia\u2019s imports.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-210520\">Fethi Belaid\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first two months of the year saw a USD 810 deficit, up 11% from a year ago. Both exports and imports picked up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":210520,"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":[91,109],"tags":[27711,2188,2189,178,273,28491],"class_list":{"0":"post-210524","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"category-sports","9":"tag-balanca-comercial-en","10":"tag-export","11":"tag-import","12":"tag-importacao","13":"tag-tunisia","14":"tag-tunisia-en-3"},"wps_subtitle":"The first two months of the year saw a USD 810 deficit, up 11% from a year ago. Both exports and imports picked up. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210524","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=210524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}