Foreign Trade Indices, February 2019
The overall export unit value index decreased by 6.3%As compared with the corresponding month of the preceding year, the overall export unit value index decreased by 6.3% in February. In the same month, compared to February 2018, the index for food, beverages and tobacco, crude materials (except fuels), fuels and manufactured goods (except food, beverages and tobacco) decreased by 4%, 4.4%, 5.6% and 6.4%, respectively.
The overall import unit value index decreased by 1.2%
As compared with the corresponding month of the preceding year, the overall import unit value index decreased by 1.2% in February. While the index for fuels increased by 4.8%, the index for food, beverages and tobacco, crude materials (except fuels) and manufactured goods (except food, beverages and tobacco) decreased by 1.9%, 7.6% and 1.8%, respectively.
Foreign trade indices, February 2019
[2010=100]
The overall export volume index increased by 10.3%
The overall export volume index compared to the corresponding month of the preceding year increased by 10.3% in February. Compared with February 2018, while the index for crude materials (except fuels) decreased by 8.2%, the index for food, beverages and tobacco, fuels and manufactured goods (except food, beverages and tobacco) increased by 4.9%, 148.5% and 8.4%, respectively.
The overall import volume index decreased by 15.9%
In February, the overall import volume index compared to the corresponding month of the preceding year decreased by 15.9%. The index for food, beverages and tobacco, crude materials (except fuels), fuels and manufactured goods (except food, beverages and tobacco) decreased by 18.3%, 31.5%, 2% and 16.9%, respectively.
Foreign trade volume indices, February 2019
[2010=100]
The calendar and seasonally adjusted export volume index which was 162.8 in January 2019, decreased by 1.1%, to 160.9 in February 2019. The calendar adjusted export volume index which was 139.2 in February 2018, increased by 10.3%, to 153.6 in February 2019.
The calendar and seasonally adjusted import volume index increased by 2.1%
The calendar and seasonally adjusted import volume index which was 118.5 in January 2019, increased by 2.1%, to 121 in February 2019. The calendar adjusted import volume index which was 132.6 in February 2018, decreased by 16%, to 111.4 in February 2019.
Terms of trade was 101.7 in February 2019
Terms of trade is calculated by dividing the export unit value index by the import unit value index, then multiplying the result by 100. While terms of trade was 107.1 in February 2018, it decreased by 5.4 points to 101.7 in February 2019.
The next release on this subject will be on May 10, 2019.
Source: TÜİK
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