Today, Sunday, the Qatar Planning and Statistics Authority announced that it posted a surplus in its merchandise trade balance of about 22 billion riyals (about $6.04 billion) last April, down 35.6% year on year.
The Department of Planning and Statistics said in a statement that the value of Qatari exports (including exports of local origin and re-exports) amounted to 30.7 billion rials, down 29.4% from the same month last year. World News Agency.
The value of imports of goods decreased in April by 6.3% year on year and amounted to about 8.7 billion rials.
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