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Date Released: May 14, 2008
 

 
Preliminary and Final Export Statistics: 2007
 
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Preliminary and Final Foreign Trade Statistics: 2007
 

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FINAL FOREIGN TRADE STATISTICS
JANUARY to DECEMBER 2007


This report presents the final monthly statistics on exports, imports and the resulting balance of trade in goods (BOT-G) for the year 2007.

Final export figures include export documents that were received after the cut-off dates. Table 1 shows a comparison of the preliminary and final series of exports for 2007 by month. Similarly, final imports data considered actual import documents received by the NSO after the cut-off dates. Table 2 shows the preliminary and final series of imports for 2007 and Table 3 the resulting preliminary and final series of the BOT-G.

As shown in Table 1, the final export figure was recorded at US$50,466 million from US$50,270 million for the period January to December 2007. For the same period, the final value of total imports was US$55,514 million, an increase of US$197 million from US$55,317 million (Table 2). The resulting trade balance in goods amounted to a deficit of US$5,048 million, an increase of US$1 million from the preliminary series of US$5,047 million deficit (Table 3).

ADVISORY NOTE: Detailed statistical tables at 10-digit 2004 PSCC will be made available by May 16, 2008 upon request to the NSO, attention: Foreign Trade Statistics Section.


Source:   National Statistics Office
                 Manila, Philippines


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