Turkey's August exports up 32.2%
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ANKARA, Sept. 30 (Xinhua) -- Turkey's exports in August saw a year-on-year increase of 32.2 percent to reach 11.2 billion U.S. dollars, Turkish Anatolia news agency quoted official statistics as saying on Friday.
Meanwhile, Turkey's imports stood at 19.4 billion dollars, up 26.3 percent compared with the same period last year, according to the Anatolia report.
TurkStat, the country's statistical authority, said Turkey's foreign trade deficit hit 8.2 billion dollars in August, 19.1 percent higher than the same period of last year.
In the first eight months of 2011, Turkey's exports and imports reached 88.7 billion dollars and 160.1 billion dollars respectively, up 21.9 percent and 39.3 percent when compared with the first eight months of last year, according to the report.
September 30, 2011
Source: Xinhua News
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