Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Mauritius sees record trade deficit in 2007

(Reuters) - Mauritius expects its trade deficit to widen 3.9 percent to a record 43 billion Mauritius rupees in 2007 from 41.4 billion rupees in the previous year, the Central Statistics Office said on Tuesday.

"Based on trends for previous years, total exports for the year 2007 are expected to be of the order of 83,000 million rupees, against imports of 126,000 million rupees," the CSO said, noting the import of aircraft worth 2.9 billion rupees.


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