{"id":332658,"date":"2023-07-17T13:59:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T16:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=332658"},"modified":"2023-07-17T13:59:59","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T16:59:59","slug":"tunisia-narrows-food-trade-balance-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/tunisia-narrows-food-trade-balance-deficit\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia narrows food trade balance deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo &#8211; <strong>Tunisia<\/strong> narrowed its <strong>food trade balance<\/strong> deficit to TNT 538.8 billion (USD 177 million) at the end of June 2023, compared with TND 1,012.5 million (USD 332 million) during the same period in 2022, leading to an improvement in the coverage rate to 86.6%, the National Observatory of Agriculture (ONAGRI) said on Monday, as per reported by TAP state news agency.<em> Pictured, date harvest in Tunisia.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In terms of value, food <strong>exports<\/strong> rose by 10.3%, while <strong>imports<\/strong> fell by 3.5%. The decline in the deficit is mainly the result of the rise by 36.3% in olive oil exports and the fall by 15.7% in grain imports, despite the increase in imports of <strong>sugar<\/strong> by 118.2%, and <strong>milk and milk by-products<\/strong> by 61.8%.<\/p>\n<p>Export prices were up for <strong>olive oil<\/strong>, <strong>tomatoes<\/strong>, <strong>citrus fruits<\/strong>, and <strong>dates<\/strong>. Import prices for grain were down by 22.1% for durum wheat, by 16.1% for common <strong>wheat<\/strong>, 12.8% for <strong>maize<\/strong> and 15.0% for <strong>corn<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Food imports accounted for 10.1% of total imports, while food exports represented 11.1% of total exports, ONAGRI reported.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-332655\">\u00a9Yassine Gaidi\/Anadolu Agency\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tunisian food trade balance deficit narrowed at the end of June. Export prices were up for olive oil and dates, while import prices were down for wheat and maize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":332655,"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":[31526,31906,40896,9857,43808,29714,9556,28491,20424,43807,37555,39690,14374,2563,33439,43809],"class_list":{"0":"post-332658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-azeite-en-2","9":"tag-exportacao-de-trigo-en","10":"tag-importacoes-tunisia-en","11":"tag-olive-oil-en","12":"tag-olive-oil-prices","13":"tag-trigo-en-2","14":"tag-tunisia-en","15":"tag-tunisia-en-3","16":"tag-tunisia-exports","17":"tag-tunisia-foods","18":"tag-tunisia-imports","19":"tag-tunisia-olive-oil","20":"tag-tunisia-trade-balance","21":"tag-wheat","22":"tag-wheat-export","23":"tag-wheat-price"},"wps_subtitle":"The Tunisian food trade balance deficit narrowed at the end of June. Export prices were up for olive oil and dates, while import prices were down for wheat and maize.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332658","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=332658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}