Indonesian imports rose 17.65 percent to 13.36 billion USD in March from 8.89 billion USD in February this year, the Central Bureau of Statistic (BPS) said.
Jakarta (VNA) - Indonesian imports rose 17.65 percent to 13.36billion USD in March from 8.89 billion USD in February this year, the CentralBureau of Statistic (BPS) said.
BPShead Suhariyanto attributed the increase to 24.94 percent rise in the importsof commodities other than oil and gas to 11.10 billion USD from 8.86 billion USDin February, Antara News reported.
Importsof oil and gas dropped 211.2 million USD or 8.54 percent.
"Year-on-year,the imports in March also rose 18.19 percent from 11.3 billion,"Suhariyanto was quoted by Antara News as saying.
Meanwhile,imports of oil and gas were valued at 2.26 billion USD in March, or down 8.54percent from 2.47 billion USD in February. Year-on-year, the March imports ofoil and gas rose 45.70 percent from 1.55 billion USD.
Cumulativelyin the first three months of 2017 imports were valued at 36.68 billion USD oran increase of 14.83 percent from 31.94 billion USD in the same period in 2016.
Thelargest imports came from China reaching 7.75 billion USD, followed by Japanfrom which imports were valued at 3.42 billion USD and Thailand from whichimports were valued at 2.15 billion USD.
Meanwhilethe country’s exports in March rose 15.68 percent to 14.59 billion USD from 12.61billion USD.
Theinternational trade in March, therefore, favoured the country with a surplus of 1.23billion USD.
Cumulatively in the first three months of theyear, exports were valued at 40.61 billion USD or up 20.84 percent from thesame period in 2016./.
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