Export earnings in April 2013 amounted to $4.041 billion, a 12.8 percent decrement from $4.328 billion recorded in April of 2012. Similarly, on a monthly basis, it decreased by 6.7 percent from $4.329 billion posted in March 2013. The negative growth was supported by six major commodities out of the top ten commodities for the month. These are other chemicals, other manufactures, machinery and transport equipment, electronic equipment and parts, metal components and electronic products. Aggregate merchandise exports for the first four months of 2013 showed a decrease of 8.0 percent from $17.514 billion in 2012 to $16.122 billion in 2013.

This report presents the final monthly statistics on exports, imports and the resulting balance of trade in goods (BOT-G) for the Philippines for the year 2012.

The Philippine merchandise exports decreased by 2.7 percent from $4.123 billion in January 2012 to $4.011 billion in January 2013. The decrement was supported by the negative growth in articles of apparel and clothing accessories, electronic products, machinery and transport equipment and ignition wiring set and other wiring sets used in vehicles, aircrafts and ships. However, on a monthly basis, receipts from merchandise exports went up by 1.0 percent from $3.971 billion posted in December 2012. Likewise, record showed that volume of outward shipments had a positive year-on-year performance of 100.9 percent compared to same month a year ago.