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In April, Southeast Asia's greatest economy demonstrated a $1.24 billion trade surplus, as the bureau told. It’s more than the $860 million a Reuters survey had predicted, though smaller compared with the revised $1.39 billion for March.
Imports headed north 10.31% from the previous year to $11.93 billion in April. By the way, the survey’s median forecast turned to be for a 21.56% annual surge rate.
The bureau told that imports of consumer goods inched up almost 26% on a yearly basis. Surges in imports of capital goods as well as raw materials happened to be smaller.
As for exports, they tacked on 12.61%, reaching $13.17 billion in April, compared with the survey’s forecast of 22.45%.
In April, both exports' and imports' value stood below that of March.
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