{"id":545437,"date":"2026-05-26T10:10:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:10:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=545437"},"modified":"2026-05-26T11:00:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T08:00:31","slug":"foreign-trade-deficit-in-goods-and-services-shrinks-threefold-in-first-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/foreign-trade-deficit-in-goods-and-services-shrinks-threefold-in-first-quarter","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Trade Deficit in Goods and Services Shrinks Threefold in First Quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The National Bank of Belarus has published data on foreign trade in goods and services for January\u2013March. According to the first-quarter results, the deficit narrowed almost threefold compared with the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>Exports of goods and services increased by 14.6% in January\u2013March to $13.18 billion. Imports rose by 10.2% to $13.4 billion. As a result, the deficit in trade in goods and services amounted to $224 million, down 66% from a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Exports of goods increased by 10.9% to $10.02 billion, while imports rose by 9.4% to $11.42 billion. The goods trade deficit amounted to $1.4 billion, unchanged from the first quarter of last year.<\/p>\n<p>Exports of services increased by 28.2% to $3.16 billion. Imports of services rose by 15.2% to $1.98 billion. The services trade surplus grew by 58.3% compared with the first quarter of last year and reached $1.18 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Bank of Belarus has published data on foreign trade in goods and services for January\u2013March. According to the first-quarter results, the deficit narrowed almost threefold compared with the same period last year. Exports of goods and services increased by 14.6% in January\u2013March to $13.18 billion. Imports rose by 10.2% to $13.4 billion. As [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":494289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/6a155322a1dbf.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Foreign Trade Deficit in Goods and Services Shrinks Threefold in First Quarter"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-business"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}