Trade deficit dropped by 26% in first 3 months of 2020 — DoS

AMMAN — The trade deficit in the first third of 2020 dropped by 26.3 per cent to JD2.054 billion compared with last year’s  JD2.775 billion, the Department of Statistics (DoS) said on Thursday. 

The value of total exports, national and reexported, went down by 7.5 per cent in the first four months of the year to stand at JD1.633 billion, compared with JD1.765 billion in the same period the year before, the DoS said in an announcement cited by the Jordan News Agency, Petra. 

Meanwhile, imports declined by 19 per cent in the first third of the year to JD3.678 billion when compared with 2019, according to DoS.