Monday, April 30, 2007

S.Africa trade deficit 2.7 bln rand in March

(Reuters) - South Africa recorded a trade deficit of 2.74 billion rand in March, virtually unchanged from the shortfall in February, the South African Revenue Service said on Monday.

The figure, below the 4.1 billion rand deficit forecast in a Reuters poll of economists, confirms a trend of relatively small deficits in the wake of January's 11.7 billion rand shortfall and record deficits in the second half of 2006.


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