{"id":14130,"date":"2012-08-31T15:31:13","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T13:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/s-africas-july-trade-deficit-widens-to-6-7-bln-rand\/"},"modified":"2012-08-31T15:31:13","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T13:31:13","slug":"s-africas-july-trade-deficit-widens-to-6-7-bln-rand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-july-trade-deficit-widens-to-6-7-bln-rand\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s July trade deficit widens to 6.7 bln rand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Aug 31 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s trade<br \/>\ndeficit widened to 6.7 billion rand ($789.75 million) in July<br \/>\nfrom a 5.7 billion rand shortfall in June, the South African<br \/>\nRevenue Service said on Friday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Exports increased by 2.9 percent month-on-month to 63.5<br \/>\nbillion rand in July while imports rose by 4.1 percent to 70.2<br \/>\nbillion rand, SARS data showed.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Economists surveyed by Reuters expected a shortfall of 5.6<br \/>\nbillion rand for July.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The cumulative deficit for the year to date amounted to 57.3<br \/>\nbillion rand compared to 6.9 billion rand during the same period<br \/>\nin 2011, SARS said.<br \/>\n($1 = 8.4836 South African rand)<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Stella Mapenzauswa; Editing by Vuyani Ndaba)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG Aug 31 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s trade deficit widened to 6.7 billion rand ($789.75 million) in July from a 5.7 billion rand shortfall in June, the South African Revenue Service said on Friday. Exports increased by 2.9 percent month-on-month to 63.5 billion rand in July while imports rose by 4.1 percent to 70.2 billion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-14130","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}