The normally quiet trade month of August produced a goods deficit of $1.6 billion, marginally narrower than the record monthly gap in September 2018 and the second largest in August 2018
Goods exports rose $151 million (3.8%) to $4.1b on a year earlier while goods imports increased $149m (2.7%)
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