{"id":547151,"date":"2026-06-01T11:17:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T08:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=547151"},"modified":"2026-06-01T11:31:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T08:31:33","slug":"goods-trade-deficit-continued-to-narrow-in-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/goods-trade-deficit-continued-to-narrow-in-april","title":{"rendered":"Goods Trade Deficit Continued to Narrow in April"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarus\u2019s goods trade deficit amounted to $517.7 million in April. It narrowed by 12.7% compared with the same month last year. In January\u2013April, the goods trade deficit decreased by 18.3% to $1.87 billion.<\/p>\n<p><mark>In April<\/mark>, Belarusian goods exports increased by 26.7% to $4.1 billion, while imports rose by 20.6% to $4.62 billion.<\/p>\n<p>In trade with CIS countries, exports in April grew by 19.7% to $2.89 billion, while imports increased by 21.7% to $2.7 billion. The monthly trade surplus with the region amounted to $172.9 million, 4.8% lower than a year earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Exports of Belarusian goods to countries outside the CIS rose by 46.8% in April to $1.22 billion. Imports from those countries increased by 18.9% to $1.9 billion. The trade deficit with non-CIS countries narrowed by 10.9% to $690.6 million.<\/p>\n<p><mark>In January\u2013April<\/mark>, Belarusian goods exports increased by 22.6% to $15.2 billion, while imports rose by 16.2% to $17.04 billion.<\/p>\n<p>In trade with CIS countries, Belarusian exports grew by 21.3% to $10.8 billion, while imports from those countries increased by 17.2% to $10 billion. The trade surplus with CIS countries more than doubled to $785.6 million.<\/p>\n<p>Exports to countries outside the CIS increased by 25.7% over the first four months of the year to $4.38 billion. Imports from those countries rose by 14.8% to $7.03 billion. The trade deficit with non-CIS countries amounted to $2.65 billion, or $10 million more than a year earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarus\u2019s goods trade deficit amounted to $517.7 million in April. It narrowed by 12.7% compared with the same month last year. In January\u2013April, the goods trade deficit decreased by 18.3% to $1.87 billion. In April, Belarusian goods exports increased by 26.7% to $4.1 billion, while imports rose by 20.6% to $4.62 billion. In trade with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":547150,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a1d4368cc9b4.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Goods Trade Deficit Continued to Narrow in April"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-business"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547151","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=547151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}