Hungary December trade surplus revised down to EUR 393 m

Hungary's 2018 December trade surplus was revised downwards to 393 million euros in a second reading of data released by the Central Statistical Office (KSH) on Monday. In the first reading, published on February 8, KSH had put the December surplus at 398 million euros. Imports rose by an annual 5.3 percent in value terms to 7.265 billion euros. Exports were up 2.5 percent at 7.658 billion euros. The trade surplus was down 178 million euros from the same month a year earlier. In the full year of 2018, Hungary's trade surplus reached 5.557 billion euros, down from 8.078 billion in the same period a year earlier. Imports were up by 7.3 percent at 99.327 billion euros and exports rose by 4.2 percent to 104.885 billion euros.