Slovenia Recorded Lively Foreign Trade in October

Ljubljana, 10 December - STATISTICS/EXPORT/IMPORT
Slovenia recorded quite abundant foreign trade last October, the National Office of Statistics reported. The preliminary data show Slovenia's exports in October amounted to US$ 794.3 million, which is the best among this year's monthly results. Slovenia's imports, too, stood high in October, reaching US$ 863.8 million, the amount which was surpassed only in April. Trade deficit stood at US$ 69.5 million, which is by 10 percent up from October 1996. The export-import coverage went down by 0.9 to 92 percent from last year.