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'Stink bug' car ship ban boosts monthly trade surplus

Machinery and equipment imports have slowed as business confidence drops.

Nevil Gibson
Mon, 26 Mar 2018

The latest monthly merchandise trade figures confirm the difficulty of reading too much into the actual outcome.

Exports exceeded imports by a much larger than expected $217 million against a consensus of $100m. But that figure was heavily influenced by the lack of car imports, held up by a

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Nevil Gibson
Mon, 26 Mar 2018
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