Forex News. China. Hong Kong. Trade balance

According to published Tuesday by the Committee of Statistics, the trade surplus for December in Hong Kong recorded in the amount of 33.4 billion Hong Kong dollars, compared with 11.76 billion fixed a year earlier. Economists considered in the volume of 22.9 billion In December, the total value of exported goods increased by 9.2% year on year and reached 224.8 billion, compared with an increase of 1.3% a month earlier. While experts expect 12% growth. The cost of imported goods in December increased by 18.7% to 258.3 billion HK dollars compared with 6.5% growth in November, while economists predicted only 16%. In 2009 overall exports and imports declined by 12.6% and 11% respectively, relative to the same period a year earlier. The trade deficit amounted to a total of 223.3 billion HK dollars.